Essence of Negotiation: Understanding Appeasement and "The Great Munich Stereotype"

Negotiation Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 379-415

  Bottom, William P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appeasement; Behavioral paradigm; Bureaucratic politics; Negotiation; New institutional economics; Paris Peace Conference; Rational choice theory; Relational contracting; Treaty of Versailles; Walter Lippman; Woodrow Wilson

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958186188     PISSN: 07484526     EISSN: 15719979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1571-9979.2010.00281.x     Document Type: Article

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