Italy: an aspiring Mediterranean middle power wavering between bilateralism and multilateralism

Multilateralism, Bilateralism and Regime Design

Each member  ∈ [1 ] chooses her level of  ≥ 0 to maximize her utility  = √− P  6= −  a function that is twice-differentiable and concave. Assuming  ≥ 0 to be the Lagrangian parameters, the optimal level of   #   satisfies the necessary and sufficient first-order conditions  1 2 − 1 2  −  +  = 0 and the Kuhn-Tucker conditions  = 0 for any  ∈ [1  ], thus ...

Multilateralism, Bilateralism, and Exclusion in the Nuclear Proliferation Regime

I use the nuclear proliferation regime to show that dyadic diplomacy is not necessarily incompatible with the building of a multilateral regime; bilateralism is not the opposite of multilateralism, but an efficient component thereof+ Although this point will not be new to most students of institutions, no general rationale has so far been offered on the complementarity of bilateral and multilat...

Multilateralism, American Power and East Asian Regionalism

This paper looks at multilateral processes in the ‘Asia-Pacific’ region and the impact of American foreign policy on them. The paper suggests that organizations like the AsiaPacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum have been made increasingly irrelevant as American policy becomes more bilateral and even unilateral, and as the very definition of the ‘Asia-Pacific’ becomes less certain as a con...

Korea- Italy Workshop on Membranes: A Long Relationship and Friendship between Korea and Italy

Bilateralism and Bilateral Bodies: the New Frontier of Industrial Relations in Italy