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The first full-length work to analyze the closing phase of negotiations, identifying the negotiators' behavior patterns in the endgame.
List of contents
How negotiations end: negotiating behavior in the endgame I. William Zartman; 1. The Iranian nuclear negotiations Ariane Tabatabai and Camille Pease; 2. Greek-EU Debt Dueling in the Endgame Diana Panke; 3. Colombia's Farewell to Civil War Carlo Nasi and Angelika Rettberg; 4. Chinese business negotiations: closing the deal Guy Olivier Faure; 5. France's reconciliations with Germany and Algeria 7K Valerie Rosoux; 6. Closure in bilateral negotiations: APEC-Member free trade agreements Larry Crump; 7. Defining components: reframing through crises and turning points Daniel Druckman; 8. Defining components: managing or resolving? Michael J. Butler; 9. Mediating closure: mediator at a driver Siniša Vukovi¿; 10. Mediating closure: timing Isak Svensson; 11. Information and communication at the end of negotiations Andrew Kydd; 12. Facing impediments: prospecting Janice Gross Stein; 13. The end of the end: uncertainty Mikhail Troitskiy; 14. Approach-avoidance conflict in negotiation Dean G. Pruitt; 15. 'When is 'enough' enough? Settling for suboptimal agreement' P. Terrence Hopmann; 16. Lessons for theory I. William Zartman; 17. Lessons for practice Chester A. Crocke.
About the author
I. William Zartman is Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author and editor of such books as Preventing Deadly Conflict (2015), Arab Spring: Negotiating in the Shadow of the Intifadat (2015), Global Power of Talk (2011), and Negotiation and Conflict Management: Essays on Theory and Practice (2007), amongst others.
Summary
Where past studies have examined when and how negotiations begin, this is the first full-length work to analyze the closing phase of negotiations, identifying negotiator behavior patterns in the endgame. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students of negotiation in international relations, international organisation, and business studies.
