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Dr Larry Crump and Professor Dan Druckman
A turning points analysis is used to capture the negotiating dynamics that occur within the hierarchical structure of an international organization. Ministerial/Council-Level operations and Committee-Level operations are distinguished. Within the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Development Agenda negotiations (2001 – present) we isolate Ministerial/Council-Level data and within the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) we isolate Committee-Level data by examining Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) negotiations conducted during the GATT Uruguay round (1985 – 1994) and at the WTO Doha Ministerial (2001). A detailed chronology of each case is compiled followed by the identification of precipitants, departures and consequences, which are the three parts of a turning points analysis. We conclude that precipitants that led to negotiation turning points at the Ministerial/Council-Level are exclusively internal and generally procedural. Precipitants creating turning points at the Committee-Level are generally internal and substantive. These conclusions have implications for international environments within international relations theory. We also establish the type of parties that will function most effectively within specific international environments and suggest a process model that charts the way negotiations move toward deadlock within international organizations.
Larry Crump is a Senior Lecturer in the Griffith Business School and a Griffith Asia Institute member. Larry studies multilateral, minilateral, regional and bilateral negotiations to advance knowledge of negotiation linkage theory, turning points theory and theory pertaining to coalitions and framing. Larry is on the editorial board of the Negotiation Journal, the International Negotiation journal, and the Journal of Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. Multiparty Negotiation (Susskind and Crump, 2008, Sage) received the 2010 Outstanding Book Award from the International Association for Conflict Management. Larry has served as a visiting scholar or professor at Baden-Wurttemberg State University (Germany), ICESI University (Colombia), Kyung Hee University (South Korea) Sabanci University (Turkey), and Science Po (France). Larry regularly teaches negotiation to executives and diplomats through the Asia Pacific Management Centre and for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trad
Daniel Druckman is professor of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University. He is also an eminent scholar at Macquarie University in Sydney, a member of the faculty at Sabanci University in Istanbul, and has been a visiting professor at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology in Taiwan, at the University of Melbourne, and at the Australian National University. He has published widely on such topics as international negotiation, nationalism, nonverbal communication, political stability and research methodologies. He is the recipient of the 2003 Lifetime Achievement award from the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM). He has also received outstanding book awards for Doing Research: Methods of Inquiry for Conflict Analysis (Sage 2005) and Evaluating Peace Operations with Paul F. Diehl (Lynne Reinner, 2010).
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