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In this book, leading experts in international negotiations present formal models of conflict resolution and international negotiations. Besides the description of different models and approaches, the book answers three questions: How can the abstract concepts and results of rational choice theorists be made more understandable and plausible to political and social scientists not trained to work with formal models? What can be done to encourag...

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The work draws on wide-ranging area analysis to develop inductively new concepts and approaches for further use in explanation and application.  Divided into two parts, it begins with analysis of revolution and socio-political unrest, followed by models of ethnic conflict and elite circulation in developing societies. It presents the cultural dialectic present in Islam.  It then lays out the patterns of mediation and negotiation in managing an...

The first full-length work to analyze the closing phase of negotiations, identifying the negotiators' behavior patterns in the endgame.

Showcases policy debates about the nature of both the international order and the role of US within it. This book describes concepts of realism, hegemony, liberalism, and constructivism, making it clear why these ideas are so relevant to understanding the challenges of world politics.

This toolkit lays out five steps mediators can take to determine when a conflict is ripe for mediation.

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The methods and techniques of peacemaking-whether it is called conflict resolution, management, or transformation-have become increasingly sophisticated, particularly in response to the increased complexity of international conflict in the post-9/11 era.This updated and expanded edition of the highly popular volume originally published in 1997 describes the tools and skills of peacemaking that are currently available and critically assesses th...

Presents a series of essays by I William Zartman outlining the evolution of the key concepts required for the study of negotiation and conflict management, such as formula, ripeness, pre-negotiation, mediation, power, process, intractability, escalation, and order.

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This work uses 11 African case studies in its exploration of the phenomenon of collapsed states. The writers consider the causes of collapse, symptoms and early warning signs, and how the situation was met. They also assess the strengths and weaknesses of various responses, such as UN action.

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This book identifies genocide as the culmination of conflicts over identity. Genocide is a pathologically defensive reaction made by people who feel that they are in danger of extinction. This poses a security dilemma that can only be broken by quelling the feelings of threat and fear that prompt mass violence. In this volume, noted thinkers and practitioners of conflict management, who hail from ten different countries, present ideas on how t...

Engaging Extremists" concerns negotiation with political terrorist organizations, separating terrorist groups that can be engaged from those that, for the moment, cannot.