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,...

Negotiations among members of international institutions often stalemate yet the outcomes vary. Sometimes talks end in impasse and other times in agreement. Several familiar theories are unable to explain the contrast between two prominent outcomes in the World Trade Organization - its 1999...