To agree or not to agree
Subtitle: leadership, bargaining, and arms control
By: Lisa A. Baglione.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Nuclear arms control; World politics -- 1945-; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989
Description: Lisa Baglione offers a model that focuses on the role of leaders to help us understand the successes and failures of American-Soviet negotiations and by implication other sets of critical negotiations.

In examining the goals and strategies of individual leaders - and their ability to make these the goals and strategies of their nations - the author provides a nuanced understanding that demonstrates how leaders facing a variety of domestic and international pressures sometimes succeed and sometimes fail to arrive at agreements with the leaders of their most important rival.

Scholars of international relations and arms control as well as those interested in bargaining and international negotiations and contemporary military history will find To Agree or Not to Agree an indispensable addition to the literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Leadership, bargaining, and arms control; title: Conflicting strategies and inconclusive discussions : Khrushchev, Eisenhower, and the test ban talks; title: From deadlock to mutual compromise : Khrushchev, Kennedy, and the Limited Test Ban Treaty; title: The search for unilateral advantage : impasse at the intermediate-range nuclear forces talks; title: Concluding the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty : Gorbachev and new thinking break the deadlock; title: Finishing start and achieving unilateral reductions : bargaining and leadership at the end of the Cold War; title: Superpower arms control and joint decision making in international relations.