Showing posts with label negotiation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label negotiation. Show all posts

Monday, June 9, 2025

China's Negotiating Strategy in Africa

 Routledge has just published a book titled China's Negotiating Mindset and Strategies: Historical and Cultural Foundations edited by Guy Oliver Faure and I. William Zartman.

Chapter 21, which I authored, is titled "China's Negotiating Strategy in Africa."  The other chapters cover a wide range of topics on China's strategy for negotiating business relations and geopolitics.  

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Prospect of Negotiations on Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

 The New Arab published on 7 August 2023 an article titled "Ethiopia and Egypt Weigh Future of Nile and Nationhood" by Lara Gibson.  

Egypt and Ethiopia announced they hope to negotiate within four months a solution to differences over Nile water and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam issues.  This may be an unrealistic time frame as many years of talks have failed and Sudan is preoccupied with an internal conflict whose outcome is far from clear.  

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Unrest in Ethiopia: CNN Interview

 CNN Newsroom with Paula Newton did a five minute interview with me on 1 December 2020 titled "Unrest in Ethiopia."

The focus of the interview was on the regional implications of the conflict and where the situation in Tigray goes from here.  

Monday, November 23, 2020

Australian Broadcasting Corporation Interview on Ethiopia

 The Australian Broadcasting Corporation ran on 23 November 2020 a six minute segment on Ethiopia titled "Ethiopia on Brink of Civil War."  The interview with me focused on the current military situation between the central government forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front in Tigray Region.

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Somalia: Negotiate with Al-Shabaab?

The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) published on 11 June 2019 a commentary titled "Time To Consider Negotiating with Al-Shabaab in Somalia?" by Akinola Olojo, ISS Pretoria.

The author makes the case for negotiating with al-Shabaab since the military option appears not to be working. The problem is that al-Shabaab has never demonstrated any inclination to compromise and seems to insist on the the total capitulation of the government of Somalia. This leaves no room for negotiation.

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Benin-China Diplomatic Interaction

The London School of Economics Global South Unit published in 2016 a paper titled "Passive Agents? Bureaucratic Agency in Africa-China Negotiations: A Case Study of Benin" by Folashade Soule-Kohndou, a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris.

The paper discusses the bureaucratic and diplomatic interaction between Benin and China in connection with the building of infrastructure projects.