VINOD K. AGGARWAL is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Affiliated Professor of Business and Public Policy in the Haas School of Business, and Director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Business and Politics. Aggarwal's books include Liberal Protectionism, International Debt Threat, Debt Games, Le Renseignement Stratégique d'Entreprise, Crafting Nested Institutions, Les Horloges Sociales de la Confrontation, and Asia Pacific Crossroads. SHUJIRO URATA is Professor of Economics at the School of Social Sciences, Waseda University, Research Fellow at the Japan Center for Economic Research, and Faculty Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo. Urata's books include Industrial Policies in East Asia, Measuring the Costs of Protection in Japan, and Asia & Europe: Beyond Competing Regionalism.