This book presents a new mode of analyzing how and why states negotiate, in which focused comparison of specific types of cases yields empirically grounded generalizations about diplomatic variability. Designed to encourage inductive case comparison, it introduces that method and elaborates upon its strengths and weaknesses.

Preface
List of Cases
List of Tables
Chapter I: Introduction
Chapter II: Toward a Diplomatic Viewpoint
Chapter III: When Diplomatic Communication is Missing
Chapter IV: Bargaining, Negotiation, and Convergent Interests
Chapter V: Diplomacy as Independent and Dependent Variable
Chapter VI: Diplomatic Mediation as an Independent Variable
Chapter VII: To Arms Control or Not
Chapter VIII: Diplomacy as Effect: Public Opinion as Constraint and Pressure
Chapter IX: Seeking Diplomatic Theory: An Interim Report
Bibliography

Barry H. Steiner is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at California State University, Long Beach.