Negotiation and Diplomacy

Harvard HKS

What can we learn from war and peace negotiations by studying great global negotiators and diplomats grappling with some of the world's most challenging problems? This course explores how modern diplomacy and negotiation can address seemingly "intractable" international conflicts and overcome barriers to agreement in civil wars, interstate conflicts, as well as on trade and environmental issues. Drawing on in-depth cases, the course will develop diagnostic and prescriptive characteristics of…