When states negotiate multilaterally they often call on ambassadors, ministers, or secretariat leaders to play the role of broker or mediator to help them overcome impasses. Yet little is known about how this role is played, what choices these mediators make with what consequences, or how the...

We cannot fully understand and improve global governance without understanding the process of negotiation in international organizations and other regimes. The strategies and tactics used by governments and official mediators partly determine whether negotiations end in impasse or agreement as...

There was a time when international trade negotiations primarily concerned lowering national tariffs on goods, but that is in the distant past. In addition to goods and so many kinds of services, trade negotiations today establish or involve international policies on investment, labor rights,...