CONFLICT AND ORDER - JUSTICE IN NEGOTIATION

When institutions are not present to establish decision rules and auth ority hierarchies, negotiations are necessary to turn conflict into or der. More than simply an exercise to be determined and explained by po wer, negotiation requires an agreement on the appropriate notion of ju stice to govern the subsequent disposition of details and resolution o f the conflict. This thesis is illustrated by five cases: negotiations over South-Western Africa (Namibia and Angola) between 1977 and 1988; over disarmament in Europe between 1984 and 1986; over the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis; and over two economic issues, the 1983-84 contract re negotiations between Ghana and its aluminum consortium and the 1977-79 trade negotiations over gas between Mexico and the United States.