Dr. Jonathan Aronson

Professor School of International Relations and Executive Director, USC Annenberg Center for Communication Von KleinSmid Center, 330 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0043 (213) 740-2129 aronson@usc.edu www.anneberg.edu

Professor Aronson's work focuses on international political economy with special attention to trade negotiations, trade in services, comparative regulation, international strategic alliances, and especially international telecommunications

His most recent book, Managing the World Economy: The Consequences of Corporate Alliances (1993, co-authored with Peter Cowhey) considered how changes in the way the world economy works will force governments to find new ways to conduct their international economic relations after the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations. Case studies on the automobile, semiconductor, and telecommunications sectors were included in this volume.

Professor Aronson is also studying how the globalization of telecommunications networks is influenced by intellectual property, standard setting, and competition policy issues and the implications of these changes for regulation, privacy and the digital divide.

Major Publications: Money and Power: Banks and the World Monetary System (1977); Debt and the Less Developed Countries (1979); and Trade in Services: Case for Open Markets (1984). Co-author with C. Michael Aho, Trade Talks: America Better Listen! (1985); Co-author with P. Cowhey, When Countries Talk: Trade in Telecommunication Services (1988); Co-author with P. Cowhey and G. Szekeley, Changing Networks: Mexico's Telecommunications Options (1989). "Telecom Agreement Tops Expectation," in Hufbauer and Wada, eds., Unfinished Business: Telecommunications after the Uruguay Round (1997).

Ph.D.: Stanford University
Field: International Political Economy

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