The United States was once seen as a land of broad consensus and pragmatic politics. Sharp ideological differences were largely absent. But today politics in Am

This book shows that political narratives can promote or thwart the prospects for international cooperation and are major factors in international negotiation p

The early modern European book world was confronted with many crises and controversies. Some conflicts were of such monumental scale that they wrought significa

This volume examines the point where the concepts and practices of escalation and negotiation meet.

After a war breaks out, what factors influence the warring parties' decisions about whether to talk to their enemy, and when may their position on wartime diplo