Description: 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 successful negotiations with mediocre outcomes.
Review Quotes:
Presents a very innovative approach to understanding international negotiations. Combining thematic examinations of causes of failures with illustrative case studies, this book provides a structured approach to the field. It allows even those readers who are not versed in negotiation theory to grasp both basic concepts and contextual complexities in a very helpful way.
--Pamela Aall "provost of the Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, U.S. Institute of Peace"