Springer eBooks -- Strategic Facilitation of Complex Decision-Making How Process and Context Matter in Global Climate Change Negotiations

This book provides theoretical and practical insights for effective decision making in situations that involve various types of conflict cleavages. Embedding historical analysis, negotiation analysis, political scientific analysis and game theoretical analysis in an integrated analytical framework allows a comprehensive perspective on various dilemmas and self-enforcing dynamics that inhibit decision making. The conceptualization of strategic facilitation highlights the value of leadership, chairmanship and the role of threshold states in facilitating decision making as the global climate change negotiations unfolds. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction: Decision-Making, Global Negotiations and Climate Change: The Making of a Decision Framework....Pages 3-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Contextualization of Multilateral Climate Change Negotiations: Understanding the Meaning of Path Dependency for Decision-Making....Pages 15-35 Negotiation Re-visited: Understanding Decision-making....Pages 37-47 Simulation as Method of Research: Learning from Experiences of the COP15 Games....Pages 49-79 Complexities in Global Climate Talks: Stumbling Blocks to Decision Making....Pages 81-111 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 The Entanglement of Global Climate Talks in North-South Relations: Identity Politics in the Trajectories of Relations....Pages 115-133 Rethinking Paradigms in Global Climate Talks: Conceptualizing Equitable Access to Sustainable Development (EASD)....Pages 135-154 Front Matter....Pages 155-155 Strategic Facilitation of the Climate Decision Making Process: Leadership and Coordination as Basis for Long-Term Cooperation....Pages 157-176 Managing the Bargaining Table Through Flexibility Mechanisms: The Benefits of Coalitions and Sequencing....Pages 177-192 Front Matter....Pages 193-193 Conclusion: Decision-Making, Global Negotiations and Climate Change—Lessons for Theory and for Practice....Pages 195-205 Back Matter....Pages 207-266