This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' A wide range of case studies is marshaled to explore relevant peacemaking situations, from the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars, to more recent settlements of the late 20th and early 21st centuries—including large scale conflicts like the end of WWII and smaller scale, sometimes internal conflicts like those in Cyprus, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Mozambique. Cases on Bosnia and the Middle East add extra interest.

This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward to end current hostilities and those that look ahead to prevent their recurrence? To answer that question, a wide range of case studies is marshaled to explore relevant peacemaking situations, from the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars, to more recent settlements of the late 20th and early 21st centuries—including large scale conflicts like the end of WW II and smaller scale, sometimes internal conflicts like those in Cyprus, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Mozambique. Cases on Bosnia and the Middle East add extra interest. Published in cooperation with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, this important research is expertly edited by renowned conflict scholars I. William Zartman and Victor Kremenyuk, and includes original case studies from scholars and practitioners around the globe including Janice Gross Stein, Daniel Druckman, and Beth Simmons, among many others.

Chapter 1 Negotiating Foward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes
Part 2 Part I: Historic Settlement
Chapter 3 Turning Point Westphalia: Negotiation Processes Establishing a New Political and Legal Order in Europe
Chapter 4 The Congress of Vienna Negotiations
Part 5 Part II: Major Contemporary Settlements
Chapter 6 The Austrian State Treaty: Concluding a Successful Negotiating Process
Chapter 7 The Dayton Agreement in Bosnia: Durable Cease-Fire, Permanent Negotiation
Chapter 8 The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
Chapter 9 Loss and Learning: From Backward-Looking to Foward-Looking Outcomes in the Egypt–Israel Rivalry
Chapter 10 Memory and International Negotiation: The Franco–German Case
Chapter 11 The Building of Mercosur: A Continuous Negotiation Process
Part 12 Part III: Bilateral and Internal Conflict Settlements
Chapter 13 Cyprus
Chapter 14 Expecting Satisfaction: Negotiating a Durable Peace in South Africa
Chapter 15 Forward-Looking Dispute Resolution: Ecuador, Peru, and the Border Issue
Chapter 16 Negotiation Processes and Postsettlement Relationships: Comparing Nagorno-Karabakh with Mozambique
Part 17 Part IV: Conclusions
Chapter 18 Looking Forward and Looking Backward on Negotiation Theory
Chapter 19 Lessons for Practice