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date: 17 April 2021

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Negotiation has become the body and soul of the modern state system. It is the preferred instrument for resolving disputes between and among nations, although its failure can and does lead to war. This article explores three questions: (1) Why has negotiation increasingly become the preferred instrument for resolving disputes in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? (2) What are some of the different approaches to the study of negotiation? and (3) What are some of the new issues for research in the study of negotiation and diplomacy?

Keywords: negotiations, diplomacy, modern state system, dispute resolution, foreign relations

Fen Osler Hampson

Fen O. Hampson is Director of Carleton University's Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. He is the author of seven books and editor of more than twenty volumes. He is a member of the board of directors of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, served as chair of the Human Security Track of the Helsinki Process on Globalization and Democracy and of the Working Group on International Institutions, and was International Cooperation Oversight Coordinator for the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism, and Security.

Chester A. Crocker

Chester A. Crocker is the James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. He served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1981 to 1989.

Pamela Aall

Pamela Aall is a senior vice president at the U.S. Institute of Peace and provost of USIP’s Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding.

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