Defence diplomacy has gained attention in the past decades. Hence, Indonesia also developed its defence for achieving strategic interests. In Indonesia’s diplomacy, bilateral forms have dominated practice of joint exercises with partners. However, under Yudhoyono administration 2014, hosted first multilateral exercise, Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo (MNEK), which aimed at facilitating engag...

Field Editor: D. Jennings We examine the antecedents and outcomes of new ventures' formation of multilateral R&D alliances. Our results show an inverted U-shaped relationship between market uncertainty and a new venture's likelihood of forming multilateral R&D alliances. Top management team's social capital and ventures' technological capabilities are critical for new ventures to identify and c...

Why do governments choose multilateralism? We examine a principalagent model in which states trade some control over the policy for greater burden sharing. The theory generates observable hypotheses regarding the reasons for and the patterns of support and opposition to multilateralism. To focus our study, we analyze support for bilateral and multilateral foreign aid giving in the US. Using new...

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...

Multilateral systems involving haptic information sharing between several users have recently found interesting applications in cooperative haptic teleoperation and haptic-assisted training. It is intuitively understood that some tasks are performed more effectively with two hands or through collaboration than one hand or individual operation. By using multiple user interfaces (“masters”) and o...

This paper compares sequential trade liberalization through a preferential trade agreement (PTA) and one-shot multilateral trade liberalization with respect to the speed with which countries attain multilateral free trade. We build a three-country oligopoly model, including one developing country whose domestic firm initially uses old technology. Firm-level adoption of new technology and countr...

s: This paper examines the optimal trade negotiation strategies in the trade negotiation involving multi-parties such as Doha Development Agenda, which is characterized by asymmetric multiple negotiators with multi-trade issues. Due to the consensus rule, which is the formal decision making rule of WTO, bilateral bargaining formula is often taken simultaneously with the multilateral bargaining ...

This paper explores how bilateral and multilateral clustering are embedded in a multilevel system of interdependent networks. We argue that, in a complex system such as global fisheries governance, in which bilateral and multilateral relations are themselves interrelated, embeddedness cannot be reduced to unipartite or bipartite clustering but implicates potential multilevel closure. We elabora...