Students attending Master's courses will be able to participate on a library course. At the course you will learn how to do searches in both national and international databases, and you will have the opportunity to search the articles that is on your curriculum.The course is voluntary, but we strongly recommend that students attend.
To be found in an article compilation which can be bought at Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus
Adar, Korwa G., John G. Nyuot Yoh, and Eddy Maloka. The Sudan Peace Process: Challenges And Future Prospects. Pretoria, South Africa: Africa Inst of South Africa, 2005: 22-57.
Johnson, Hilde F. Waging Peace in Sudan: The Inside Story of the Negotiations That Ended Africa’s Longest Civil War. Brighton, England: Sussex Academic Press, 2011: 42-57, 88-104.
McGarry, J., B. O'Leary and R. Simeon 2008. "Integration or accommodation. The enduring debate in conflict regulation". In S. Choudry (ed.), Constitutional design for divided societies, integration or accommodation? Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 41-89.
Meerts, Paul W. (2005). “Entrapment in international negotiations”, i I. W. Zartman og G. Olivier Faure (red.), Escalation and negotiation in international conflicts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 111-140
Pillar, P. R. 1983. Negotiating peace: War termination as a bargaining process. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Chapter 3.
Zartman, I. William og Rubin, Jeffrey Z. (2000). Power and negotiation. Ann Arbour: University of Michigan Press. Chapter 1, 12.
Downloadable articles, books and other texts
You can search the articles and e-books in the e-journal database available at the University of Oslo Library. This requires having access to and being logged onto the UiO system. Contact the Reference Services at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library if you have problems finding the literature.
Allison, Graham (2012). "The Cuban missile crisis at 50: Lessons for U.S. foreign policy today". Foreign Affairs 91 (4): 11-16.
Atran, S. and R. Axelrod 2008. "Reframing sacred values". Negotiation Journal, 24 (3): 221-246
Beardsley, K. 2008. "Agreement without peace? International mediation and time inconsistency problems". American Journal of Political Science, 52 (4): 723-740
Beardsley, K., D. M. Quinn, B. Biswas and J. Wilkenfeld 2006. "Mediation style and crises outcomes". Journal of Conflict Resolution, 50 (1): 58-86
Bercovitch, J. and A. Kadayifci 2002. "Conflict mangament and Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The importance of capturing the "right moment". Asia-Pacific Review, 9 (2): 113-129.
Curran, D., J. Sebenius and M. Watkins 2004. "Two paths to peace: Contrasting George Mitchell in Northern Ireland with Richard Holbrooke in Bosnia-Herzegovina". Negotiation Journal, 20 (4): 513-537.
Grundig, F., J. Hovi, A. Underdal and S. Aakre 2012. "Self-enforcing Peace and Environmental Agreements: Toward Scholarly Cross-fertilization?", International Studies Review 14 (4).
Habeeb, W. M. 1988. Power and tactics in international negotiation: How weak nations bargain with strong nations. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 7.
Hopmann, T. 1996. The negotiation process and the resolution of international conflicts. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12 and 13.
Luttwak, E. 1999. "Give war a chance". Foreign Affairs, 78 (4): 36-44.
McGarry, j., B. O'Leary 2009. "Must pluri-national federations fail?" Ethnopolitics, 8 (1): 5-25.
Muthoo, A. 2000. "A non-technical introduction to bargaining theory". World Economics, 1 (2): 145-166.
Poust, Paul (2012). "Does issue linkage work? Evidence from European alliance negotiations, 1860 to 1945". International Organization 66 (2): 277-310
Pruitt, D. G. 1997. "Ripeness theory and the Oslo talks". International Negotiation, 2 (2): 237-250.
Roeder, P. G. 2008. "Ethnofederalism and the mismanagement of nationalism". Regional and Federal Studies, 19 (2): 203-219.
Sebenius, J. 1983. "Negotiation arithmetic: Adding and subtracting issues and parties". International Organization, 37 (2): 281-316.
Stein, Janice G. (1985). “Structures, strategies, and tactics of mediation: Kissinger and Carter in the Middle East”, Negotiation Journal 1 (4): 331-347.
Underdal, Arild (1983) "Causes of negotiation failure", European Journal of Political Research 11: 183-195.
Waage, H. H. 2005. "Norway's role in the Middle East peace talks: Between a strong state and a weak belligerent". Journal of Palestine Studies, 34 (4): 6-24.
Watkins, Michael (2003). “Strategic simplification: Toward a theory of modular design in negotiation”. International Negotiation, 8 (1): 149-167
Total required reading: 874 pages