Breakthrough international negotiation how great negotiators transformed the worlds toughest post cold war conflicts by michael watkins 2001 10 29. The full set of cases and in depth analysis for teaching purposes also are available in breakthrough international negotiation how great negotiators transformed the worlds toughest post cold war . Detailing breakthrough negotiations which brought the israelis and palestinians together for the first time in oslo built the gulf war coalition ended the great divide between north and south korea and terminated the war in bosnia the authors employ a compelling narrative and didactic style to explain how to understand and apply sophisticated field tested methods of dispute resolution in a variety of situations. Breakthrough international negotiation is a work designed to inspire and instruct aspiring conflict resolvers as to how to overcome an array of barriers to agreement in the context of complex high stakes negotiations