Global Power of Talk: Negotiating America's Interests
Hampson, F. O., & Zartman, I. W. (2015). Global Power of Talk: Negotiating America's Interests. Routledge.
Abstract
The Global Power of Talk explores the power of negotiation and diplomacy in US foreign policy at a critical juncture in US history. Beginning with the failure of US diplomacy in relation to Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s, it shows how a series of diplomatic blunders has laid the foundations for the uninhibited use of 'gun power' over 'talk power' in the last two decades. It critically examines missed opportunities in America's handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in both the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. In a provocative conclusion, the authors argue that the United States can and should negotiate with the so-called 'unengageables' like Iran, North Korea, and Al-Qaeda, in order to find ways to defuse underlying tensions in the global system.
Contents
Part I : Talking
Chapter 1: Talk Power for the Tough Minded
Chapter 2: How America Lost Its Way: Iraq and Palestine, and the Failure to Use Talk Power
Chapter 3: The Tools of Talk Power
Chapter 4: The Proven Success of Talk Power: Lessons from the Middle East
Part II: Managing
Chapter 5: Timely Talk to Prevent Violent Conflict
Chapter 6: Engaging Unengageables
Chapter 7: Talking with Terrorists
Chapter 8: Taming Intractable Regional Conflicts
Part III: Teaming
Chapter 9: Building "Teams of Rivals"
Chapter 10: Talking with Friends and Allies
Chapter 11: Talking Laterally on New Governance Challenges
Chapter 12: Negotiating America's Interests
About the Editors
I. William Zartman is the Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University in Washington, and member of the Steering Committee of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program.
Fen Osler Hampson is Professor and Director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He serves as senior consultant to the United States Institute of Peace, as board member to the Lester B. Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, Social Sciences Foundation at the University of Denver, as senior editor of the Conflict Management and Security Studies, Routledge Publishers.
