Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed The World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts

Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts

This fascinating and instructive book offers a revealing,blow-by-blow description of secret, headline-making negotiations inthe Middleast, Korea, Africa, and Bosnia, as well as an invaluableguide to conducting such a difficult process of tremendouspractical application to a wide variety of conflict resolutionprofessionals.Based on extensive interviews and research with key players at thehighest level, this book not only tells some incredibly dramaticstories but shows how to use these demonstrated strategies, skills,improvisational interventions and other techniques. Detailingbreakthrough negotiations which brought the Israelis andPalestinians together for the first time in Oslo, built the GulfWar Coalition, ended the great divide between North and SouthKorea, and terminated the war in Bosnia, the authors employ acompelling narrative and didactic style to explain how tounderstand and apply sophisticated, field-tested methods of disputeresolution in a variety of situations.