Research Articles

The Origin of Games: A Theory of the Formation of Ordinal Preferences and Games

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Pierre Allan|

Cooperative Models in International Relations Research, 1994
When faced with situations involving strategic interaction, game theory has shown itself to be an invaluable approach to understanding actors’ behavior.

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Cycling Over Berlin: The Deadline and Wall Crises

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Pierre Allan|

Diplomacy, Force, and Leadership: Essays in Honor of Alexander L. George, 1993
This chapter attempts to follow some of Alexander George’s exacting standards in analyzing two crises: the 1958-1959 Berlin Deadline crisis and the 1961 Berlin Wall crisis.

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Cold War Endgames

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Pierre Allan|

The End Of The Cold War: Evaluating Theories Of International Relations, 1992
This text examines some of the main theories of international relations through a single major historical turning point namely the end of the Cold War.

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The Future of APEC

Asia-Pacific Crossroads: Regime Creation and the Future of APEC, 1998
Regionalism has become a prominent feature of international relations in the second half of the 20th century, but one whose significance for the international order is not yet fully understood.

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Mexican Meltdown: States, Markets, and post-NAFTA Financial Turmoil

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

Third World Quarterly, 1996
The devaluation of the Mexican peso in December 1994 triggered a financial panic that required massive intervention by the United States government and the International Monetary Fund in an effort to prevent a full-scale financial collapse.

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Comparing Regional Cooperation Efforts in the Asia-Pacific and North America

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

Pacific Cooperation: Building Economic and Security Regimes in the Asia Pacific Region, 1994
John Maynard Keynes once said that “Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.”

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Modeling Peruvian Debt Rescheduling in the 1980s

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

Studies in Comparative International Development, 1994
International debt rescheduling is a strategic game in which the stakes are the wealth and power of banks and nations.

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Building International Institutions in Asia-Pacific

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

Asian Survey, 1993
In the view of the ongoing difficulties in concluding the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT), both policymakers and scholars have increasingly turned their attention to institutional arrangements in the Asia-Pacific.

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The Future of the Liberal Trading Order

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

The Post-Cold War Order, 1993
Predicting the future is risky business, generally best left to sorcerers and fortune-tellers who can adapt their predictions to the needs of their clients.

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