Putnam, Robert

This paper analyses the peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine that lasted over the period of nine-months (29 July 2013 - 29 April 2014), under the theoretical framework of Robert Putnam's two-level games model. The model does not offer a solution to the decades-old con…

In an image from Robert Putnam's two-level-game metaphor, "national political leaders" from nation-states engaged in international negotiations, sit astride two game boards to balance the requirements of playing the international and domestic games simultaneously and effectively…