VINOD 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 has been at Berkeley since 1980, and from 1991-1994 was Chairman of the Political Economy of Industrial Societies Program. He is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Business and Politics.