I William Zartman: A Pioneer in Conflict Management and Area Studies

Biography & Bibliography.- Texts on Contention.- Revolution and Development.- An Economic Indicator of Socio-Political Unrest.- Need, Creed and Greed.- Theory of Elite Circulation.- Democracy and Islam: Cultural Dialectic.- Dynamics and Constraints in Negotiating Internal Conflicts.- Mutually Enticing Opportunities and Durable Settlements.- Negotiating with Terrorists and the Tactical Question.- Analyzing Intractability.- State of Collapse.- Challenges of Prevention and Resolution.- War and Peace.- Texts on Governance.- Systems of World Order.- Return to Theories of Cooperation.- Process of Social Reconciliation.- Justice in Allocation.- Governance as Conflict Management.- National Interest and Ideology.- Self and Space.- Putting Humpty Together Again;.- Diplomacy of African Boundaries.- Identity, Movement and Response.- To Govern is to Negotiate.- Ubiquity of Prevention.- Critique: B Jentleson: Courage to Prevent.

I William Zartman is a Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Organization and Conflict Resolution and former Director of the Conflict Management and African Studies Programs, at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program at Clingendael, Netherland. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) and a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Catholic University of Louvain.


Dr. Zartman is the author of a number of works on North Africa and on African politics and international. He has also developed the field of negotiation analysis, and is author or (co-)editor of numerous works in this and related fields. 

He helped create the peacemaking focus of the International Peace Academy (Institute), of which he was a member; he initiated negotiating courses at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI) and was on the steering committee for the FSI negotiation project, coauthoring two FSI books, International Negotiation and Perspectives on Negotiation. He is a founding member of the editorial board of the journal, International Negotiation, and is convener of the Washington Interest in Negotiations (WIN) Group. Dr. Zartman was project director of the Case Studies on Negotiations at SAIS and coauthor of The Panama Canal Negotiations (SAIS FPI) and The Algerian Gas Negotiations (SAIS, FPI). He is also the editor of the SAIS African Studies Library with Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Dr. Zartman has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Research Center in Egypt, among others. He received teaching awards from the University of South