They will also not negotiate fundamental values, rights, or identity issues. These are inherently non-negotiable. Negotiation also does not work if one side has little to offer the other side, or when the power differential between the parties is high. Likewise, integrative strategies have limits too. The most important is time.
Integrative approaches are usually very slow.
They take months, even years to accomplish, while force based strategies may be much quicker. For this reason, it is important to assess all the strategies available, and the costs and benefits of each before one strategy or set of strategies is chosen. This article examines reasons for the Gulf War. Rakisits believes that the full range of possible responses to this crisis was not adequately considered or attempted. This is another example in which negotiation was not seriously considered.