International Negotiation Analysis, Approaches, Issues

The first edition of International Negotiation became a best-selling classic in the field of global conflict resolution. This second edition has been substantially revised and updated to meet the challenges of today's complex international community. Developed under the direction of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, this important resource contains contributions from some of the world's leading experts in international negotiation, representing a wide range of nations and disciplines. They offer a synthesis of contemporary negotiation theory, perspectives for understanding negotiation dynamics, and strategies for producing mutually satisfactory and enduring agreements that is particularly relevant in these times.

VICTOR A. KREMENYUK, Ph.D., director of science (history), is deputy director at the The Institute for the USA and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. His areas of interest are international conflict resolution, crisis management, and foreign policy negotiation process. He has published more than one hundred works in Russian and other languages, including Processes of International Negotiations (F. Mautner-Markhof, ed.), Windows of Opportunity (G. Allison, W. Ury, and B. Allyn, eds.), and Cold War as Cooperation (R. Kanet and E. Kolodziej, eds.). Since 1988, he has been an IIASA research associate in the Processes of International Negotiations Project. Contributors to the book include I. William Zartman, Guy Olivier Faure, Jeffrey Rubin, and 20 other experts.