Rethinking Avenues to Resolve North Korean Nuclear Issues: Bilateral Relations or Multilateral Coordination?

Transmission loss allocation in bilateral or multilateral transaction-based markets

In this paper, the problem of transmission loss allocation has been studied and a new method for loss allocation in transaction-based markets has been proposed. To further this end, first transmission line loss equations were used with respect to bus injected currents. The share of each bus from the mentioned transmission line losses was determined. Then, this method was applied to the total ne...

IV. Reciprocal liberalization: Bilateral, plurilateral or multilateral?

A country may opt for different type of reciprocal trade liberalization leading to either multilateral or bilateral/plurilateral negotiations. If it chooses a multilateral approach, it will focus on the big negotiations table of the World Trade Organization (WTO). If however it prefers to negotiate with a smaller number of partners, it will end up having petite comité rounds with one or several...

Is multilateral enforcement vulnerable to bilateral renegotiation?

In amultilateral enforcement regime, a player who cheats on one partner is punished bymany partners. But if partners can renegotiate in private, they can subvert the power of the multilateral punishment. We introduce a new notion of “bilateral renegotiation proofness” that applies to multilateral games with private monitoring. For symmetric networked environments, we characterize an optimal bil...

Rethinking Multilateral Negotiations: Disarmament as Humanitarian Action

Increasing attention has been focused in recent years on the need for multilateral negotiation processes in the disarmament and arms control field to “think outside the box” in addressing contemporary challenges. But beyond recognition that there are imperfections in current approaches, it is not always clear that the parameters of the existing box are sufficiently understood or, indeed, what t...

Cooperation or Collusion: Explaining Bilateral and Multilateral Environmental Aid to Developing Countries