Research Articles

Economic and Security Institution Building in Northeast Asia: An Analytical Overview

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Min Gyo Koo|

Northeast Asia, 2008
In recent years, however, the traditional institutional order that has governed economic and security relations in Northeast Asia has come under heavy strain.

An Institutional Path: Community Building in Northeast Asia

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Min Gyo Koo|

The United States and Northeast Asia, 2008
In this chapter, we show how the traditional institutional equilibrium in Northeast Asia has come under heavy strain in the triple post period: namely the post‐Cold War, the post‐financial crisis of 1997‐98, and the post‐September 11, 2001 attacks, thereby undergoing a dramatic transformation.

The Dynamics of Trade Liberalization

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

Power, Interdependence and Non-State Actors in World Politics, 2008
My objective in this chapter is to build in the tradition of this research program on trade cooperation and conflict.

Asia’s New Institutional Architecture

Can regional and interregional mechanisms better institutionalize the increasing complexity of economic and security ties among the nations in Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia? As the international state system undergoes dramatic changes in both security and trade relations in the wake of the end of the Cold War, the Asian financial crisis, and the attacks […]

Northeast Asia’s New Institutional Architecture

This project investigates the origins and evolution of Northeast Asia’s new institutional architecture and community building, focusing on two sets of distinct but related aspects. The first concerns national strategies for a new institutional equilibrium and community building among key players in the region, including the U.S., China, Japan, the two Koreas, and Russia. The […]