Multilateral Negotiations
Lessons from Arms Control, Trade, and the Environment
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 1999
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780801861970
- Publish Date
- Apr 1999
- List Price
- $41.95
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Description
Unlike conventional bilateral negotiations, multilateral negotiations are characterized by intensive international discussions that involve multiple actors and interests, highly complex agendas, and differentiated international settings. Political scientist Fen Osler Hampson, with the assistance of trade specialist Michael Hart, studies the component parts of the multilateral negotiation process to identify those factors making for success or failure. The authors argue that multilateral negotiation is, in essence, a coalition-building enterprise involving states, nonstate actors, and international organizations. Individual case studies include discussions on security, the environment, economic issues, and non-governmental actors—such as scientists and environmental groups like Greenpeace International—in prenegotiation and negotiation phases.
About the authors
Fen Osler Hampson is the director of CIGI’s Global Security & Politics Program and professor at Carleton University. He is the co-author of Brave New Canada: Meeting the Challenge of a Changing World (2014) with Derek H. Burney.
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Michael Hart is Simon Reisman Chair in Trade Policy, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. A former trade official in Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, he was the founding director of Carleton's Centre for Trade Policy and Law and is the author of numerous books and articles on international trade issues.
Editorial Reviews
"Hampson and Hart offer detailed evidence that multilateral negotiation can be a viable alternative to global disorder or imposed regimes. Multilateral Negotiations gives cause for reasoned optimism by showing how individual leaders, epistemic communities, small countries, and international bureaucrats can all help reduce complexity to manageable proportions."
Mershon International Studies Review
"How are scholars to comprehend the rapidly changing world? One valuable tool for their intellectual arsenal should be this book by Fen Osler Hampson with Michael Hart."
Perspectives on Political Science
"Although there are more instances and many case studies of multilateral negotiations, there are almost no conceptual—let alone theoretical—studies of the subject... Fen Hampson has rendered a great service in helping to fill this gap by testing and deriving insights about multilateral decision making from a number of empirical exercises. The work is a major contribution to understanding an important diplomatic activity and to opening up a new field of analysis... This book is a major step in putting multilateral negotiations on the map and in the curriculum as a subject to be taught and analyzed."
American Political Science Review
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