Review: International Law and Organization: Conference Diplomacy, Effective Negotiation
| Date | 01 December 1991 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209104600407 |
| Published date | 01 December 1991 |
| Author | Robert W. Cox |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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INTERNATIONAL
LAW
AND
ORGANIZATION
CONFERENCE
DIPLOMACY
An
introductory
analysis
Johan
Kaufmann
Second
revised
edition;
The
Hague:
Martinus
Nijhoff,
1988,
xxx,
2o8pp
EFFECTIVE
NEGOTIATION
Case
studies
in
conference diplomacy
Edited
by
Johan
Kaufmann
The
Hague:
Martinus
Nijhoff,
1989, xxviii,
316pp
Johan
Kaufmann
is
a
senior
(now
retired)
diplomat
who
spent
much
of
his
career
in
the
ambit
of
the
United
Nations
system,
having
served
as
permanent
representative
of
the
Netherlands
to
the
United
Nations
in
both
Geneva
and
New
York.
He
also
served
in
a
similar
capacity
at
the
Organization
for
Economic
Co-operation
and
Development
in
Paris;
his
last
diplomatic
posting
was
as
ambassador
to
Japan.
Early
in
Kaufmann's
career,
Jan Tinbergen,
the
future
Netherlands
Nobel
laureate
in
economics, took
an
interest
in
Kaufmann
as
someone
who
could
contribute
to
economic diplomacy
in
sharing
Tinbergen's
own
perspective
-
that
is
to
say,
less
concerned
with
particularist
interests
than
with
a
conception
that
the real
national
interest
is
embed-
ded
in
the construction
of
a
predictable
and
just
system
of
global
economic
regulation.
One
of
Kaufmann's
early
tasks
was
participation
in
the
negotiations
over
the
Special
United
Nations
Fund
for
Economic
Development
(SUNFED),
an abortive
attempt
to
equip
the
United
Nations
system
as a
channel
for
redistribution
in
favour
of
less
devel-
oped
countries.
The
project
predictably
failed
because
of
opposition
from
countries
(the United
States
in
the
first
instance)
that
had
the
capital to
contribute
but
would
not
relinquish
to
an
international
agency
control
over
the
use
to
be
made
of
it.
This
experience
sparked
Kaufmann's
interest
in
decision-making
in
international
organization.
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