I William Zartman: 10 books
I William Zartman: A Pioneer in Conflict Management and Area Studies
Essays on Contention and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
The work draws on wide-ranging area analysis to develop inductively new concepts and approaches for further use in explanation and application. Divided into two parts, it begins with analysis of revolution and socio-political unrest, followed by models of ethnic conflict and elite circulation in...
Negotiation and Conflict Management
Essays on Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
This book presents a series of essays by I. William Zartman outlining the evolution of the key concepts required for the study of negotiation and conflict management, such as formula, ripeness, pre-negotiation, mediation, power, process, intractability, escalation, and order.
Responding to...
Arab Spring
Negotiating in the Shadow of the Intifadat
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Beginning in January 2011, the Arab world exploded in a vibrant demand for dignity, liberty, and achievable purpose in life, rising up against an image and tradition of arrogant, corrupt, unresponsive authoritarian rule. These previously unpublished, country-specific case studies of the uprisings...
Negotiating with Terrorists
Strategy, Tactics, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This edited volume addresses the important issue of negotiating with terrorists, and offers recommendations for best practice and processes.
Hostage negotiation is the process of trying to align two often completely polarised parties. Authorities view hostage taking as unacceptable demands...
Peace versus Justice
Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward...
by I. William Zartman
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Conflict is inherent to all human and inter-state relations, but it is not inevitable. Since the end of the Cold-War, the prevention of conflict escalation into violence through management and resolution has become a fundamental objective of the international system.
So how does prevention...
Unfinished Business
Why International Negotiations Fail
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Most studies of international negotiations take successful talks as their subject. With a few notable exceptions, analysts have paid little attention to negotiations ending in failure. The essays in Unfinished Business show that as much, if not more, can be learned from failed negotiations as from...
Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized
Preventive Diplomacy in the PostDCold War World
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1999
The basic logic of preventive diplomacy is unassailable. Act early to prevent disputes from escalating; reduce tensions that could lead to war; deal with today's conflicts before they become tomorrow's crises. Yet as we look at the record of these first years of the post-Cold War era, it is quite...
Global Power of Talk
Negotiating America's Interests
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The Global Power of Talk explores the power of negotiation and diplomacy in US foreign policy at a critical juncture in US history. Beginning with the failure of US diplomacy in relation to Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s, it shows how a series of diplomatic blunders has laid the foundations...
Military Intervention
Cases in Context for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2004
Internal conflict continues to be the most common form of organized violence, most often occurring in a so-called 'arc of instability' comprised of Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. The misery and death caused by these conflicts, with helpless civilians often victims, has...