This paper is concerned with the development of a cooperative analysis approach for use by Diplomats and Negotiators in resolving certain difficult conflicts. It employs concepts from economics and peace science without any diminution of the urgent need for superb diplomacy and negotiations...

In this paper we wish to make generally available a comprehensive survey of the peace economics literature up to 1992, printed at that time in a very high-priced book unaffordable by most scholars and university and college libraries. This survey constitutes Part II of this paper. To this survey...

In this part we wish to present a short, but compact survey of the main strands of thought in the literature on peace economics up to 1992. A more detailed and thorough survey requires a book-length manuscript currently being written. There are many ways in which this survey can be organized....

This statement supplements the rationale of the 1997 Isard/Azis proposal1 to initiate a resolution of the then current bitter conflict between North and South Koreas. The proposals and initiatives of the U.S., Japan, other nations and the U.N. had reached a stalemate. The Isard/Azis proposal...

This paper is another one to point up the usefulness of the relative utility approach in conflict management. In this case, it relates to the problem of stalemate. In this approach, each party involved is asked to identify the objectives which it perceives as relevant to it in considering any...

In his presidential address, October 1998 on Formative and Early Years of the Peace Science Society (International), it was not possible for the author to include a number of important items required for a full appreciation of the setting and the organizational dynamics of that critical period,...

This working paper speaks of "art and science" of nuancing conflicts in an unusual manner. We use the word "art" specifically to designate non-scientific factors. But when we employ the term "art and science" we have in mind the use of non-economic factors, for example diplomatic know-how and...