Abstract
Taking the perspective of the lead U.S. negotiator, Charlene Barshefsky, this article details and analyzes the negotiations that took place in the mid-1990s between the United States and the People's Republic of China over intellectual property rights (IPR). Employing a "negotiation analytic" methodology, Charlene Barshefsky's actions are interpreted to suggest a number of promising approaches to managing the daunting complexities of trade and other negotiations: recognizing the multiparty aspects of apparently bilateral dealings and capturing them in a "deal diagram;" carefully assessing "barriers" to agreement; sequencing to build a winning coalition and overcome potentially blocking ones; "acoustic separation" of issueframes; and, most broadly, changing the game advantageously relative to a purely tactical orientation "at the table" through 3-D actions "away from the table."
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2003
Publication Information
8 International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory & Practice 311-338 (2003)
Repository Citation
Green, Rebecca and Sebenius, James K., "Sequencing, Acoustic Separation, and 3-D Negotiation of Complex Barriers: Charlene Barshefsky and IP Rights in China" (2003). Faculty Publications. 1756.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/1756
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