| Abstract: | Guo Gang's essay, Government Leadership Change and InternationalNegotiations uses a game theoretic model to explain the effectsof leadership change on international negotiations. The essayargues that leadership in transition introduces a context ofasymmetric information that has an impact on negotiations andtheir outcome. It identifies and analyses three perfect Bayesianequilibria employing a case study based on the strategic dialoguebetween the United States and the USSR during the Cold War period.Guo Gang applies the logic developed in |
