"This book offers an analysis of the controversial Camp David II peace negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis in July 2000 and the ensuing political events. Oded Balaban argues that the true political positions in the conflict do not coincide with traditional div…
Trade between the European Union and North Africa has been a contentious issue since the Treaty of Rome. Serious diplomatic attempts to broker a resolution resulted in the Association Agreement between Morocco and the EU in 1995, after protracted negotiations over three years. H…
"Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual hostility between the United States and Cuba--beyond invasions, covert operations, assassination plots using poison pens and exploding seashells, and a grinding economic embargo--this fascinating book chronicles a surprising, unt…
This volume offers a critical historical assessment of the negotiation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and of the origins of the nonproliferation regime. The NPT has been signed by 190 states and was indefinitely extended in 1995, rendering it the…
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and job creation; claims that are wholeheartedly rejected by its critics, who regar…
Thèse sur l'élaboration d'un partenariat entre le Maroc et l'Union européenne en matière de politique migratoire analysée du point de vue marocain, et en particulier sur les négociations à propos d'un accord de réadmission concernant le retour forcé des migrants en situation irr…
Bargaining in the international system is governed by rules, which shape and constrain states' bargaining behavior. However, these rules can be changed. When, why, and how do states bargain differently under different sets of rules? Drawing on original qualitative and quantitati…
Une analyse du système de gouvernance mondiale en matière de climat, organisé depuis vingt ans autour de réunions internationales régulières. Les auteurs montrent que les négociations menées lors de ces rendez-vous aboutissent à des accords très limités, souvent décevants, alors…
Group politics in UN multilateralism
"Group Politics in UN Multilateralism provides a new perspective on diplomacy and negotiations at the United Nations. Very few states 'act individually' at the UN; instead they often work within groups such as the Africa Group, the European Union or the Arab League. States use g…
"From the inability of European powers to form an alliance that would stop Hitler in the 1930s, to the present inability of Ukraine to join NATO, states frequently attempt and fail to form alliance treaties. This book sheds new light on the purpose of alliance treaties by recogn…
While past studies have examined when and how negotiations begin, and how wars end, this is the first full-length work to analyze the closing phase of negotiations. It identifies endgame as a definable phase in negotiation, with specific characteristics, as the parties involved …
"This book 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, prenegotiation, mediation, power, process, intractability, escalation, order. Respond…
"How do adversaries communicate? How do diplomatic encounters shape international orders and determine whether states go to war? Diplomacy, from alliance politics to nuclear brinkmanship, almost always operates through a few forms of signaling: choosing the scope of demands on a…