Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
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Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.
Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.
Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.
Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.