Review: International Relations Theory: Power and Tactics in International Negotiation
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209104600114 |
| Author | Salim Mansur |
| Published date | 01 March 1991 |
| Date | 01 March 1991 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS/INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
THEORY
193
international
conferences
present
a
close
analogue
to
this
'original
position.'
The
conditions
Rawls
specifies
(A
Theory
of
Justice,
p
378)
when
extending
the original
position
to
negotiations
among
represen-
tatives
of
communities
do
not
correspond
to
the
conditions
at
a
confer-
ence
of
states.
Presuming
justice
within
communities,
Rawls
supposes
that
the
representatives
'know
nothing
about
the
particular
circum-
stances
of
their
own
society,
its
power
and
strength
in
comparison
with
other
nations,
nor
do they know
their
place
in
their
own
society.'
Negotiations
to
partition
Poland
and
divide
Africa
-
examples
of
liberal
justice,
according
to
Midlarsky
-
were
not
conducted behind
a
veil
of
ignorance
and
did not
accord
with
the criterion
ofjustice
as
fairness.
The
bigger
the
dog,
the
bigger
the
bone
-
not
justice
-
would
be
an
apt
description.
The
fact
that
each
dog
received
a
bone
does
not
accord
with
the
liberal
principle
that
the
least
advantaged
benefit,
because
of
the
elementary
point
that
those
people
made
spoils
by
the
powerful
had
no
say.
Midlarsky
knows
this
(for
example,
chapter
9,
note
6),
but
writes
as
if
it
and
the
substitution
of
states
for
people
were
of
little
consequence.
The
heavy-handed
normative
discussion
and
the
questionable
bal-
ance-of-power
analysis,
following
as
they do
an
impressive
empirical
analysis
of
instability
prior
to
World
War
1,
make
The
Onset
of
World
War
a
disappointing
book.
William
B.
Moul/University
of
Waterloo
POWER
AND
TACTICS
IN
INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION
How
weak
nations
bargain
with
strong
nations
William
Mark Habeeb
Baltimore
MD:
Johns
Hopkins
University
Press,
1988,
xii,
168pp,
US$2
5.oo
This
short
book
by
a
young
academic
takes on
a
subject
that
has
not
been
studied
as
extensively
as
it
deserves
to
be.
Habeeb's
work
is
an
important
contribution
to
the
study
of
international
relations and
in
many
ways
a
pioneer
effort at
analysing
and unmasking
the
intricacies
of
interstate
negotiations.
As
he
points
out,
the
study
is
aimed
at
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