Political Science

Crisis bargaining and third-party mediation: Bridging the gap

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The intersection of the study of bargaining and international crisis has proven a fertile area of inquiry that has notably excluded third-party mediation. This research chronicles this omission from the crisis bargaining literature, and seeks to identify whether mediation as a form of international crisis behavior merits inclusion in that literature. In conducting an empirical analysis of third-party mediation in international crisis, this study finds that mediation is in fact a prominent feature of international crisis, with the likelihood of mediation greatly increased in crises featuring a high overall level of violence as well as in crises of a military-security nature. On the basis of these empirical findings, this study concludes that third-party mediation is deserving of more systematic attention by scholars of crisis bargaining, offering suggestions for future inquiry to that end. © 2007 ? 2007 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, an imprint of Brill.

Publication Title

International Negotiation

Publication Date

6-2007

Volume

12

Issue

2

First Page

249

Last Page

274

ISSN

1382-340X

DOI

10.1163/138234007X223302

Keywords

conflict management, crisis bargaining, international crisis, third-party mediation

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