Political Science
Negotiation and mediation in the hard(est) cases
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In seeking a fuller understanding of the provision and effectiveness of negotiation and mediation, salient lessons can be gleaned from instances in which these processes seem unlikely to succeed or unlikely to be tried at all. Contributions to this special issue of International Negotiation purposefully avoid mining examples of success stories for correlates. The contributors have instead consciously identified and examined applications of negotiation and mediation in the hard(est) cases, with the objective of teasing out what shortcomings and even failures can tell us about the prospects of negotiation and mediation as practices of conflict management and resolution. Using the criteria discussed in this introductory article, this collection examines negotiation and mediation in international crises, intractable conflicts, civil wars, and other cases defined by complex contextual environments, actor configurations, and disputes - with the goal of revealing insights that can improve the effectiveness of negotiation and mediation in application.
Publication Title
International Negotiation
Publication Date
2019
Volume
24
Issue
3
First Page
357
Last Page
370
ISSN
1382-340X
DOI
10.1163/15718069-24031189
Keywords
civil wars, international crisis, international negotiation, intractability, mediation
Repository Citation
Butler, Michael J., "Negotiation and mediation in the hard(est) cases" (2019). Political Science. 29.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_political_science/29
