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As the threat of superpower confrontation diminishes in the post-cold war era, civil wars and their regional ramifications are emerging as the primary challenge to international peace and security. Notoriously difficult to resolve, these internal conflicts seem condemned to escalate with no end in sight. This book recognizes that internal dissidence is the legitimate result of the breakdown of normal politics and focuses on resolving conflict through negotiation rather than combat. Elusive Peace provides a revealing look at the nature of internal conflicts and explains why appropriate conditions for negotiation and useful solutions are so difficult to find. The authors offer a series of case studies of ongoing conflict in Angola, Mozambique, Eritrea, South Africa, Southern Sudan, Lebanon, Spain, Colombia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. They examine the characteristics of each confrontation, including past failed negotiations, and make suggestions for changes in negotiating strategies that could lead to a more successful outcome. The contributors, in addition to the editor, are Imtiaz Bokhari, Bilkent University, Ankara; Robert Clark, George Mason University; Marius Deeb and Marina Ottaway, Georgetown University; Mary Jane Deeb, American University; Francis Deng, Brookings; Daniel Druckman, National Academy of Sciences; Todd Eisenstadt, University of California, San Diego; Daniel Garcia, University of the Andes, Bogota; Justin Green, Villanova University; Carolyn Hartzell and Donald Rothchild, University of California, Davis; Ibrahim Msabaha, Center for Foreign Relations, Dar es-Salaam; and Howard Wriggins, Columbia University.

This work uses 11 African case studies in its exploration of the phenomenon of collapsed states. The writers consider the causes of collapse; symptoms and early warning signs; and how the situation was met. They also assess the strengths and weaknesses of various responses, such as UN action.

How do the weak negotiate with the strong and win some benefits in spite of their lack of power? This book covers all the complex trade negotiations conducted in the 1960's between the African states and the EEC.

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The collapse of the existing world order and the rise of a counter order pose problems for the practice of negotiation and mediation as generally conceived. The transition will likely have problems overcoming issues faced in past transitions in 1812, 1919, and 1948 without a full-scale war, yet learn from these experiences. It is not too early to think about the processes and strategies needed to arrive productively at a better new system where negotiation processes can provide useful means to resolve conflicts. This article examines three levels of conflict and how conflict resolution and management approaches might be able to reestablish their capacities in a future system of international relations norms and institutions.

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Conflict over justice is the basis of negotiation, as the parties search for an outcome that is just enough, both to be preferable to their initial, but unilaterally unreachable, priorities and to the alternative of continued conflict. They do this in preparation for negotiating the exchange or division of items contested between them; the parties come to an agreement on the notion of justice that will govern this disposition. If they do not, the negotiations will not be able to proceed to a conclusion. Conflicting notions of justice act as a substantive veto on agreement and must be coordinated and accepted as the first stage of negotiation. The resulting notion of justice constitutes a formula, general principles defining the nature of the process, including the nature of the problem and the terms of trade. Ten historical cases are considered.

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Completed negotiations often end in shortfalls, half glasses, and way stations. Is that enough to claim success and is a half-loaf sometimes sufficient? The nine articles in this thematic issue examine various forms of incomplete negotiations, from a full-worded agreement that is bypassed, through a formal ceasefire, an agreement among only the agreeables, a mediated but non-transforming agreement, a confidence-building agreement, and finally, claimed resolution that drives violence underground. Sufficiency has different meanings in each case, but generally refers to making some progress in handling the conflict, whereas insufficiency refers to not making progress at any level that is lasting.

Tisser le temps politique au Maroc: Imaginaire de l'État à l'âge néoliberal [Weaving political time in Morocco: The imaging of the state in the liberal age], by Béatrice Hibou and Mohamed
Tozy. Paris: Éditions Karthala, 2020. 656 pages. €35. Les débuts du Hirak en Algeria[The Beginnings of the Hirak Movement in Algeria], edited by Ali Bensaâd and Malika Rahal, two parts. Maghreb-Machrek nos. 244–45, 2020. Paris: ESKA Publishing,
2020. 105 and 99 pages. n. p. Tunisie, l'apprentissage de la démocratie, 2011–2021 [Tunisia, the first steps toward democracy, 2011–21], by Khadija Mohsen-Finan. Paris: Éditions Nouveau Monde, 2021. 257 pages. €17.90.

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The current context of increasing entropy in international politics poses challenges for negotiation and negotiation analysis. The current System of World Disorder contains defining characteristics that do not fit well with established negotiation concepts and practice. Following a few decades of progress in conflict management after the bipolar system, major regions of the world have seen dedicated attempts to bring conflicts under control in the current decade failing for lack of ripeness, trade-offs, reframing, mediation and support. New concepts and practices of negotiation are required to deal with the current vacua in international politics and their consequences.