This edited volume addresses the important issue of negotiating with terrorists, and offers recommendations for best practice and processes. Hostage negotiation is the process of trying to align two often completely polarised parties. Authorities view hostage taking as unacceptable demands made by unacceptable means. However terrorists view their actions as completely justified...(展开全部)

彼得·约翰斯顿，哈佛大学MBA,美国顶级谈判大师，美国商界、政界高级谈判顾问，争端斡旋者、调停人。他以自己独特的谈判艺术一一协助处于劣势的小人物或小团体取得谈判胜利而闻名全美，受到各大媒体的关注和追捧。他谈判经验丰富，美国中小企业甚至重大案件的嫌犯都曾经得到过他的帮助,他的社会影响力甚至得到了美国政府的认可。目前为美国政府高级顾问，美国CNH、ABC等长期特邀嘉宾。

《劣势谈判:小人物的谈判策略》：当我们身处劣势，不得不面对与强势者的谈判时，该如何是好？曼德拉身在狱中，能翻手为云、覆手为雨，让欧美大国都惟命是从，令南非政府不得不妥协，最终坐上总统宝座，这是怎样一个劣势者的强势谈判！巴西一个普通的家庭主妇，将媒体、政府拢到身边，从而有资格与超市集团进行价格谈判，这又是怎样的一种劣势策略？注意，她真的只是一名普通的家庭主妇。本书通过各种案例、详细的论据，分类讲述，当作为“小人物”与“大人物”在谈判桌上相遇时，如何巩固自己的防御、避免被巨人击倒；如何着眼于巨人的薄弱点、使双方实力接近平衡；如何用独特的手段最大化自己的影响力，使自己看起来和巨人一样强大；怎么将不可能的交易转化成巨大的机会； 怎么通过谈话的艺术提高自己的社会地位。

Why do some national leaders pursue ambitious grand strategies and adventuresome foreign policies while others do not? When do leaders boldly confront foreign threats and when are they less assertive? Politics and Strategy shows that grand strategies are Janus-faced: their formulation has as much to do with a leader's ability to govern at home as it does with maintaining the na...(展开全部)

Why do some national leaders pursue ambitious grand strategies and adventuresome foreign policies while others do not? When do leaders boldly confront foreign threats and when are they less assertive? Politics and Strategy shows that grand strategies are Janus-faced: their formulation has as much to do with a leader's ability to govern at home as it does with maintaining the na...(展开全部)

Since its original publication fifteen years ago, this hugely influential book has been at the centre of much debate. The arguments and controversies it has been aroused are, furthermore, far from abating: the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the emergence of new social and political identities linked to the transformation of late capitalism, and the crisis of a left-wing pro...(展开全部)

Since its original publication fifteen years ago, this hugely influential book has been at the centre of much debate. The arguments and controversies it has been aroused are, furthermore, far from abating: the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the emergence of new social and political identities linked to the transformation of late capitalism, and the crisis of a left-wing pro...(展开全部)

David Evans and Mark Peattie's new "Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941" represents the most comprehensive effort to date to describe the doctrinal changes the IJN went through from its inception to its ruin. The work traces the evolution of Japanese naval thought through three major wars, and clearly describes how the lessons that...(展开全部)