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International negotiation requires the ability to meet special challenges and deal with the unknown. Even those experienced in cross-cultural communication can sometimes work against their own best interests during international negotiations. Skilled business negotiators know how to analyze each situation, set up negotiations in ways that are advantageous for their side, cope with cultural differences, deal with foreign bureaucracies, and manage the international negotiation process to reach a deal.
The Program on Negotiation notes that in any international negotiation, several critical tactics should be considered:
Researchers have confirmed a relationship between national culture and negotiation style and success. An ongoing project sponsored by Northwestern University’s Dispute Resolution Research Center is exploring the link between process and outcomes—specifically, how cultural tendencies lead to certain process choices, which, in turn, can lead to better or worse negotiation results.
For example, while conventional wisdom tends to hold that there’s strength in numbers, some cultures may dislike being faced with a sizeable negotiating team, poisoning the negotiations right from the start.
At the same time, diplomatic negotiations, such as those between the U.S. and Iran over nuclear capabilities, can be quite different from business negotiations. For example, it’s critical to maintain a reputation for impartiality, and to be aware how your international goals potentially interact and contradict, so you can establish a consistent stance in your relations with groups you are trying to woo.
Finally, due to the enormous influence of China in today’s world markets, PON offers numerous insights into Chinese negotiation styles, which include a strong emphasis on relationships, a lack of interest in ironclad contracts, a slow dealmaking process, and widespread opportunism.
Jeswald Salacuse published a column in the Summer 2010 issue of Tufts Magazine.
His article suggests that weaker parties can:
Build relationships with third parties
Develop alternatives
Use linkage
Take initiative
Divide and conquer
To read Professor Salacuse’s full article, entitled The Lion and the Lamb: Do the Strong Always Devour the Weak, click here. … Learn More About This Program 
Jeswald Salacuse’s article Teaching International Business Negotiation: Reflections on Three Decades of Experience was published in International Negotiation, Volume 15, Number 2. The full article can be purchased here.
Abstract:
The author has taught international business negotiation in a wide variety of university courses and executive training programs throughout the world during the last three decades. He … Learn More About This Program
Culture-along with many other variables-often affects international negotiations. The book Culture and Negotiation focuses on the distinctive impact of culture, both in creating unexpected opportunities for dispute settlement and in imposing obstacle to agreement. Part I presents expert views on the nature and limits of culture’s influence on negotiation. Part II comprises the core of … Read Cross-cultural negotiations
Ehud Eiran, an affiliate of the Program on Negotiation and former fellow who is currently a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and a lecturer at MIT, was interviewed last week on NPR, by the NY Times and in Newsweek about the Gaza Flotilla blockade. … Read Ehud Eiran interviewed about Gaza Flotilla
Adapted from “Team Negotiating: Strength in Numbers?”, first published in the Negotiation newsletter.
According to conventional wisdom, when it comes to negotiation, there’s strength in numbers. Indeed, several experimental studies have supported the notion that you should bring at least one other person from your organization to the bargaining table if you can. On average, this … Read Teams across cultures
“Afghanistan: How to end violent conflict and promote reconciliation.”
with
Ambassador Peter Galbraith
Date: April 13, 2010
Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Room N-262, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).
Speaker Bios
Peter W. Galbraith has served in senior positions in the US Government and the United Nations. Most recently, he was Deputy … Learn More About This Program
“The Brazilian Experience on Dispute Systems Design (DSD): the TAM and Air France cases”
with
Diego Faleck (LL.M. ’06),
Chief of Staff of the Secretariat of Economic Law of the Ministry of Justice in Brazil
Date: April 6, 2010
Time: 12:15PM to 1:15PM
Where: Pound Hall, Room 332, Harvard Law School Campus
Click here for a campus map.
Speaker Bio
Diego Faleck … Learn More About This Program
“The India-Pakistan Peace Initiative: The Role of GEO TV Network”
with
Mir Ibrahim Rahman, CEO, GEO TV Network
Date: March 9, 2010
Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Room N-262, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).
Speaker Bio
Mir Ibrahim Rahman (MIR), CEO of GEO TV Network, has been at the helm … Learn More About This Program
Professor Robert Mnookin’s “Bargaining with the Devil: When to Negotiate, When to Fight,” was highlighted in Richard Bernstein’s New York Times article, “Is it Time to Engage the Taliban?” Published yesterday, Bernstein uses Professor Mnookin’s most recent book as a framework to discuss whether now is the time for the Obama administration to negotiate with … Learn More About This Program
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