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Tactical Advantages of Opening Positioning Strategies

Lessons From the Seabed Arms Control Talks 1967-1970

Center for Arms Control and International Security University of California, Los Angeles

This study assesses Soviet and American positioning strategy dunng the negotiation of the 1971 treaty banning nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction from the seabed. It finds the superpowers employed both maximalist and equitable postures in the initial draft treaties they submitted. Evidence suggests that the negotiation would have been concluded more expeditiously, the outcome being the same, had the United States and the Soviet Union at the outset adopted equitable positioning strategies on the three focal points of the negotiation-the comprehensiveness of the prohibition, its geography, and verificanon-rather than opting for preferences commonly recognized as anathema to the other.

Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 21, No. 4, 685-700 (1977)
DOI: 10.1177/002200277702100408


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