by Partha Gangopadhyay (University of Western Sydney, Australia)

This book offers an extensive and original study of the dynamics of rivalry, evolution of costly and violent conflicts, and potential cooperation among powerful players. It unravels the special features of the global socio-economic system that can make it extremely fragile and vulnerable. It serves as a good reference source for anyone interested in some of the pressing and emerging problems of the global system, such as intra-national and interethnic conflicts, climate change challenges, poverty and terrorism, and provides useful and rigorous insights into the collective bid to resolve some of these problems. Written in a simple and accessible manner, this book will help researchers and policy makers in understanding and abetting costly conflicts.

• Rivalry, Conflict and Cooperation: Lessons from the Business World:
  • Endogenous Collusion and Rivalry: Theoretical Models and Conjectures
  • Politics of Campaign Contributions, Economics of Rivalry and Endogenous Market Structures
  • Rivalry in Formation of Social Capital in Networks and Endogenous Social Norms
  • Economics of Cooperation in Successive Markets
  • Secret Price Discounts and Chaotic Discrimination and Industrial Conflicts
  • Globalization, Market Hostility and Endogenous Mergers among Rivals
  • Endogenous Rivalry, Conflicts and Cooperation in Vertical Markets
• Rivalry, Conflict and Cooperation: Goliath against Goliath:
  • The Art of Central Banking and Policy Conflicts
  • Intellectual Property Rights and SIDS: Vertical Foreclosure and the Role of Ethics in Cooperation
  • Local Governance: Fiscal Decentralization and Conflicts in LDCs
  • Multinationals and Labor Unions in LDCS: Cooperation vis-à-vis Conflicts
  • Globalization, Democratization and Urban Crisis in Developing Nations