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This volume mines the case of bauxite negotiations in Jamaica during the world economic crisis of 1974 to develop bargaining theory for application in Political Economy and draw lessons for practical conflict-resolution. It should be of interest to scholars across the Social Sciences who work in fields of Conflict and Social Change, Dialectics,Peace Theory,Diplomacy,Business Negotiations,Formal Models and Game Theory,Caribbean Studies,Economic Nationalism,Political Economy of Aluminium and other Global Industries,and relations between transnational corporations and host governments in the Global South. This book features a new theoretical synthesis that interprets formal models of conflict and resolution using a dialectical historical analysis that integrates the analyses of structural power and inter-subjective meanings within a coherent paradigm.

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Michael H. Allen is Harvey Wexler Chair in Political Science at Bryn Mawr College. He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow Harvard University, Consultant at the Overseas Development Institute, London and an officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,Jamaica. Allen wrote for the Ph.D at the London School of Economics as Rhodes Scholar from Jamaica.

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