(PIN Points) In the mid-1980s as the establishment of a Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) program was being planned in Vienna at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze is reported to have noted that when countries have a conflict it was the US and not the USSR that was called on to mediate and negotiate. As a result, he sent a security member to Vienna to join PIN and learn the tricks of the trade. […]
Russia in Conflict Mediation: New Opportunities, New Tactics?
Co-authored by M. Troitskiy and I. Zartman (p. 30)
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Tug of War: Negotiating Security in Eurasia, a Conceptual Framework
Co-authored by M. Troitskiy and F. Hampson (p. 33)
Our article attempts to offer conceptual insights into the modes and utility of negotiation in resolving conflicts in Eurasia, a region that has its own unique political, cultural and economic characteristics and an evolving security dynamic in interstate relations following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. For the purposes of our study, we understand Eurasia to be the vast geographic space stretching from the western borders of the former Soviet Union to East Asia and encompassing the sub-regions of Eastern Europe, South Caucasus as well as Central, South, and North-East Asia. […]
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