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The author, who has experienced plenty of negotiation processes including Inter-Korean Dialogue, looks back at the history of negotiation in the 20th century that changed the world history in an attempt to find a clue to solve the problems of Korean society.
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Now is the age of negotiation. Negotiation was ridiculed as a choice of cowards in the 20th century with rampant violence and wars whereas, now, attention is paid to the efforts to avoid conflicts and solve problems not only between countries, regions, companies and organizations but also between individuals. This book shows a big picture of how to enter into negotiation in situations where negotiation is needed. It tells the history of various negotiations from small-scale negotiations such as regional disputes to enormous negotiations between and among countries, and from the Korean peninsula to all over the world. It describes the memorable scenes of 20 negotiations that changed the world while leading the history of the 20th century not only great negotiations that avoided conflicts, disputes and wars such as the European Coal and Steel Community representing transnational cooperation, the Cuban missile crisis negotiations that brought the world back from the brink of nuclear war, and negotiations on democratization in South Africa that resulted in a black and white reconciliation through forgiveness, but also unresolved or failed negotiations that may trigger bigger problems such as negotiation on the unification of Yemen that ended in vain due to rushing to negotiation, the 1965 Korea-Japan Treaty that backfired due to an overly easy compromise, the Kashmir disputes between India and Pakistan that still witness bloodshed.
Readers can find the wisdom of negotiation, knowhow of success, historical lessons and an opportunity for reflection through successful or unsuccessful global negotiation and simultaneously, will be able to meet the power of negotiation and how various negotiations for reconciliation, peace, coexistence and cooperation have moved the world.
- About the Author
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Kim Yeoncheol
Kim Yeoncheol is a professor of the Department of Unification Studies at Inje University and currently works as the president of the Korea Institute for National Unification. He earned a PhD in politics from Sungkyunkwan University with the thesis Industrialization of North Korea and the Politics of Factory Management. Kim planned inter-Korean business projects at Samsung Economic Research Institute and participated in a number of talks including the six-party talks, South and North Korea-US talks, South and North Korea-Russia talks, and Korea-China talks aimed at resolving the North’s nuclear issue as well as inter-Korean talks as a policy adviser to the Minister of Unification during the Noh administration in 2004. The books written by Kim include Industrialization of North Korea and Economic Policies and Memories of the Cold War. He hopes that peace comes on the Korean Peninsular and is interested in resolving conflicts around the world and bringing peace to those countries.
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