I won’t pretend to keep up with everything being written in the ADRsphere if you will promise the same. Having confessed that, and consistent with the regret implied in that confession, I thought I would offer an easy-to-skim Table of Contents view of the last two issues of Negotiation Journal – – a publication I commend for its continued commitment to peer review and to brevity. – – MM
Negotiation Journal, Volume 36, Issue 2 (Spring 2020)
Special Issue: Critical Moments in Negotiation Revisited
Editor’s Note
Joel Cutcher‐Gershenfeld
Introduction to Special Issue: Critical Moments in Negotiation II
Daniel Druckman and Joel Cutcher‐Gershenfeld
Thirty‐Five Years of Research on Turning Points: Insights Gained and Gaps to be Filled
Daniel Druckman
What Use is a Critical Moment?
David Laws
Pivotal Events Driving Organizational and Institutional Transformation
Joel Cutcher‐Gershenfeld
Initiating Collaboration in the Midst of a Standoff: What to Do at that Critical Moment
Lawrence Susskind
Transitions from Infinite to Finite Games as Critical Moments
William A. Donohue
Learning the Wisdom to Seize the Moment: How Negotiators Encourage the Learning of Practical Wisdom for Themselves and Others
Kenneth Sharpe
Dancing Around Male Violence: The All Too Ordinary Backstory to Barshefsky’s Extra‐ordinary Practice
John Forester and Anne Kilgore
Making Connection as Critical Moves in Negotiation
Deborah M. Kolb
The Other Person’s Choices
W. Stuart, Jr.
The Power of Politeness in Negotiation: The Charlene Barshefsky Conversations
William A. Donohue
Applying Principles of Improvisation to Negotiation
Chet Harding
Critical Moments Reconsidered: When We Say Yes and When We Say No
Carrie Menkel‐Meadow
Here is an overview of the first issue published this year, which features our usual mix of articles advancing theory, practice, policy, and pedagogy:
Negotiation Journal, Volume 36, Issue 1 (Winter 2020)
Editor’s Note
Joel Cutcher‐Gershenfeld
The Luck Factor in Negotiation
Kimberlyn Leary and Michael Wheeler
The Humanitarian as Negotiator: Developing Capacity Across the Aid Sector
Rob Grace
Behind the Curtain: Syria’s 1979 Mediation in the Yemen Dispute
Su‐Mi Lee
The Art of Negotiation Exercise Design: Five Basic Principles to Produce Powerful Learning Experiences
Arvid Bell and Taylor Valley
Navigating Conflict: How Youth Handle Trouble in a High‐Poverty School
Michael Moffitt
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