Preventive Negotiation: Avoiding Conflict Escalation

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Negotiation lies at the core of preventive diplomacy. This study is unusual in approaching preventive diplomacy by issue areas: it looks at the way in which preventive negotiation has been practiced, notes its characteristics, and then suggests how lessons can be transferred from one area to another, but only when particular conditions warrant such a transfer. The distinguished contributing authors treat eleven issues: boundary problems, territorial claims, ethnic conflict, divided states, state disintegration, cooperative disputes, trade wars, transboundary environmental disputes, global natural disasters, global security conflicts, and labor disputes. The editor's conclusion draws out general themes about the nature of preventive diplomacy.

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This new volume is a valuable addition to the growing literature in this field. Zartman has assembled a strong team, and each of the chapters casts light on the field. * International Affairs *
This work makes a valuable conribution to concretising the theory on preventing conflict escalation. * Ethnic Conflict Research Digest *

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I. William Zartman is Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organization and Conflict Resolution and Director of African Studies and Conflict Management programmes at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.