Book Review

Book reviews in this article:
Louis Kriesberg, Terrell A. Northrup, and Stuart J. Thorson (editors). Intractable Conflicts and Their Transformation .
Janice Gross Stein (editor). Getting to the Table: The Processes of International Prenegotiation .
Frances Maumer-Markhof (editor). Processes of International Negotiations     

Practitioners' theories of international negotiation

Book reviewed in this article:
William J. Jorden , Panama Canal Odyssey
Jeffrey Davidow , A Peace in Southern Africa: The Lancaster House Conference on Rhodesia, 1979
James K. Sebenius , Negotiating the Law of the Sea     

New books

Books reviewed in this article:
Blackburn, J. Walton and Willa Marie Bruce (editors). Mediating Environmental Conflicts: Theory and Practice .
Friedman, Clara H . Between Management and Labor: Oral Histories of Arbitration .
Kramer, Roderick M. and David M. Messick (editors). Negotiation As A Social Process .
Raab, Jonathan . Using Consensus to Improve Utility Regulation .
Schwab, Susan C . Trade-Offs: Negotiating the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act .
Spector, Bertram I., Gunnar Sjöstedt, and I. William Zartman (editors). Negotiating International Regimes: Lessons Learned from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
Summy, Ralph and Michael E. Salla (editors). Why the Cold War Ended: A Range of Interpretations .
Wever, Kirsten S . Negotiating Competitiveness: Employment Relations and Organizational Innovation in Germany and the United States .     

The emerging literature on environmental negotiations

Book reviewed in this article:
Lawrence S. Bacow and Michael Wheeler , Environmental Dispute Resolution
Gail Bingham , Resolving Environmental Disputes: A Decade of Experience
Timothy J. Sullivan , Resolving Development Disputes Through Negotiations     

Inside the ‘black box’ of conflict resolution

Book reviewed in this article:
Roy J. Lewicki and Joseph A. Litterer , Negotiation
Dean G. Pruitt and Jeffrey Z. Rubin , Social Conflict: Escalation, Stalemate, and Settlement
Stephen B. Goldberg, Eric D. Green, and Frank E. A. Sander , Dispute Resolution     

Creating the climate for conflict resolution in communities

Book reviewed in this article:
Roger Fisher and Scott Brown , Getting Together: Building Relationships that Get to YES
Susan L. Carpenter and W.J. D. Kennedy , Managing Public Disputes: A Practical Guide to Handling Conflict and reaching Agreements
Lawrence Susskind and Jeffrey Cruikshank , Breaking the Impasse: Consensual Approaches to Resolving Public Disputes     

Investment expansion in the Mediterranean and European potentials

ATragic future?

The tragedy of Great Power politics / John J. Mearsheimer. ‐ New York : Norton, c.2001. ‐ xvi, 555 p. ; 24 cm. ‐ ISBN: 0393020258.     

New Books

Books reviewed in this article:
Avenhaus, Rudolph, Victor A. Kremenyuk, and Gunnar Sjöstedt , editors. Containing the Atom: International Negotiations on Nuclear Security and Safety .
Blackshaw, Ian S . Mediating Sports Disputes: National and International Perspectives .
Blaker, Michael, Paul Giarra, and Ezra Vogel . Case Studies in Japanese Negotiating Behavior .
Gilboa, Eytan , editor. Media and Conflict: Framing Issues, Making Policy, Shaping Opinions .
Irving, Howard H. and Michael Benjamin . Therapeutic Family Mediation: Helping Families Resolve Conflict .
Kriesberg, Louis . Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution .
LeBaron, Michelle . Bridging Troubled Waters: Conflict Resolution from the Heart .
Raiffa, Howard, with John Richardson and David Metcalfe . Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision Making .
Smyser, W.R. How Germans Negotiate .
Voorhees, James . Dialogue Sustained: The Multilevel Peace Process and the Dartmouth Conference .     

Toward a negotiated order

Book reviews in this article:
Barbara Gray . Collaborating: Finding Common Ground for Multiparty Problems.
Louise Nieuwmeijer . Negotiation: Methodology and Training.
Linda R. Singer . Settling Disputes: Conflict Resolution in Business, Families, and the Legal System.     

Einsteinian practice and Newtonian discourse: An ethical crisis in mediation

Book reviews in this article:
John Haynes and Christine Haynes , Mediating Divorce: Casebook of Strategies for Successful Family Negotiations .
Kenneth Kressel and Dean Pruitt , Mediation Research; The Process and Effectiveness of Third Party Intervention .
Nancy Rogers and Craig McEwen , Mediation: Law, Policy, Practice .     

How to prevent nuclear war

Book reviews in this article:
William L. Ury , Beyond the Hotline: How Crisis Control Can Prevent Nuclear War .
Graham T Allison, Albert Carnesale , and Joseph S. Nye Jr. , eds., Hawks, Doves and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War .
Barry Blechman , ed., Preventing Nuclear War: A Realistic Approach .     

Alternative dispute resolution: An international approach

Book reviews in this article:
Hein Kdtz and Reynald Ottenhof , eds., Les Conciliateurs, La Conciliation .
Jerold Auerbach , Justice Without Law .
Michard L. Abel , ed., The Politics of Informal Justice, Volume 2: Comparative Studies .     

Power Politics, Diplomacy and Role Playing: Simulating the UN Security Council's Response to Terrorism

In the International Organizations classroom, students learn a lot about the nuts and bolts of international organizations in theory, but do not always have the opportunity to understand how international organizations work in practice. Understanding negotiations, diplomacy and interstate relations is essential in understanding the strengths of weaknesses of international organizations. To this end, the use of in-class simulations, where each student represents a different country, can be an effective tool in teaching students about international organizations and global governance. This article describes a simulation run in an International Organizations class in the Fall 2002 semester. It involved a fictitious serious terrorist attack in Singapore during a performance of "Kiddush for Naomi" performed by the Israel Habima Theatre Company. The article describes the goals of the simulation, the preparation the students undertook throughout the semester, the implementation of the simulation itself, and the post-simulation debriefing and assessment of the students and lessons learned for future in-class simulations.     

马来西亚华人社团的新特点

根据马来西亚政府社团注册局2001年6月的统计，马来西亚林林总总的华人社团约有7276多个，占全国注册社团32269个总数的大约五分之一。华族是马来西亚马来人、华人和印度人三大民族中注册社团组织最多的一族；马来西亚也是全球拥有华人社团最多的国家，这反映了当前华人在马来西亚的经济、政治、文化、联谊等方面的全面活跃。     

The art and science of mediation

Book reviewed in this article:
Jacob Bercovitch , Social Conflicts and Third Parties: Strategies of Conflict Resolution.
Jay Folberg and Alison Taylor , Mediation: A Comprehensive Guide to Resolving Conflicts Without Litigation
Deborah Kolb , The Mediators
Christopher Moore , The Mediation Process     

The Coming Sino-U.S. Clash？ --A Review of The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Eight years ago, Professor John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago argued that a Sino-U.S. confrontation was inevitable in the first 20 years of the 21st century. In the light of the 20 years＇ development in Northeast Asia since the end of the Cold War, however, all scenarios and explanations given in The Tragedy of Great Power Politics are incorrect.     

Moore,R. (2010). Nuclear Illusion,Nuclear Reality Britain the United States and Nuclear Weapons, 1958–64

W.N. Medlicott, Douglas Dakin and M.E. Lambert (eds.), Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919–1939, First Series, Volume XX. German Reparation and Allied Military Control 1922. Russia, March 1921‐December 1922 (London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1976). 970 + lxx pp. £23. ISBN 0–11–591553–2

W.N. Medlicott and Douglas Dakin (eds.), assisted by Gillian Bennett, Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919–1939, First Series, Volume XXII. Central Europe and the Balkans 1921. Albania 1921–2 (London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1980). 885 + cxii pp. £45. ISBN 0–11–591555–9

David S. Newhall, Clemenceau. A Life at War (The Edwin Meilen Press: Lampeter, 1991). 682 + xv pp. £35.95. ISBN 0–88946–785–4

J. Calvitt Clarke III, Russia and Italy against Hitler. The Bolshevik‐Fascist Rapprochement of the 1930s (Contributions to the Study of World History No. 21, Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut, 1991). 218 + xvii pp. £59.95. ISBN 0–313–27468–1

David Dutton, Simon. A political biography of Sir John Simon (Aurum Press, 1992). 364 + viii pp. £25. ISBN 1–85410–204–4

Peter Neville, Neville Chamberlain. A study in failure? (Personalities and Power Series, Hodder and Stoughton, 1992). £5. ISBN 0–340–56308–7     

海权争霸与俄苏的兴衰及其历史反思

从海权的角度分析俄苏的兴衰是一个尚未有人进行充分探讨的问题。在数百年的争夺中 ,海权的扩张固然构成了俄苏崛起的一个因素 ,但从长远的角度看 ,对海权的过度追求又构成了俄苏走向衰落的根源之一。具体说来 ,从俄苏海权扩张西进、南下和东进 3条线路中 ,西进战略较为成功 ,并促进了俄苏的崛起 ;南下和东进战略虽有所收获 ,但都遭遇挫折 ,尤其是南下的世界扩张战略直接导致了苏联的衰落。从本质上来说 ,地缘政治条件的制约、俄苏海权过渡扩张所导致的一系列矛盾构成了俄苏海权战略失败并导致国力衰微的根源之一。     

“The past,present, and the perhaps’ is Germany a “normal” power?

Thomas Banchoff, The German Problem Transformed. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999).

Thomas U. Berger, Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).

John S. Duffield, World Power Forsaken. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998); Christian Hacke, Die Aussenpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Weltmacht wider Willen? 3rd ed. (Berlin: Ullstein, 1997).

Peter Katzenstein, ed., Tamed Power: Germany in Europe. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997).

Andrei Markovits and Simon Reich, The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997).

Elizabeth Pond, The Rebirth of Europe. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1999).

James Sperling, “Neither Hegemony nor Dominance: Reconsidering German Power in Post‐Cold War Europe,” British Journal of Political Science (forthcoming).     

Jimmy Carter and the Horn of Africa: Cold War Policy in Ethiopia and Somalia by Jackson,D

Ennio Di Nolfo (ed.), Power in Europe?II. Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy and the Origins of the EEC, 1952–1957. (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1992), DM238.

Simon J. Nuttall, European Political Cooperation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), 343pp. £30, ISBN 0 19 827318 5.

Michael Smith and Stephen Woolcock, The United States and the European Community in a Transformed World (London: Pinter publishers for Royal Institute for International Affairs, 1993), 120 pp., £22.50 hb, £9.95 pb. ISBN 086187 0972/086187 0980.

Richard H. Ullman, Securing Europe (London: Adamantine Press, 1991), 175pp., £12.95. ISBN 0 7449 0036 0.

Cornelia Navari (ed.), The Condition of States: A Study in International Political Theory (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991), 238pp.

Francine Friedman, (comp. and ed.) Yugoslavia: A Comprehensive English‐Language Bibliography (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1993), xv + 547 pp., indices, US$ 120.

Richard Dean Burns (ed.), Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993), three vols., 1692 pp. inch index, US$280, ISBN 0 684 19281 0.