PS 0500 Lecture Notes - Arab Spring, Wield, Yalta Conference
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Negotiations (styles: positional negotiations, each side opens with position and makes adjustments as negotiations proceed, principled negotiations, parties begin by identifying common principles, interests and goals, specific outcomes are decided later, oslo accords and the road map are examples. General: functions include, identifying common ground (overlapping range of acceptable outcomes that the 2 sides can"t come up with on their own, identifying red lines, lines that each side isn"t willing to cross, passing information between the parties; trust and credibility for the mediator comes in to play. 2000: clinton hosts talks at camp david (israel and palestine: private talks with a public announcement but no agreement was reached, israeli pm: minister ehud barak, palestinian president: yasir arafat, clinton was criticized as being too involved in details of the negotiations too pushy, disagreement over who is to blame for failure of the talks.
