Abstract
Consensual knowledge can produce widely varying levels of impact on different international negotiations. In the case of negotiations over UNCTAD's Integrated Program for Commodities, consensual knowledge developed among the experts involved. This consensus tended to support the position taken by the developed countries, thus pointing in a direction already taken for other reasons. Consensus in this case facilitated an agreement, but empirical and theoretical analysis both suggest it may prove to be an incorrect or unstable agreement. The outcome of the commodity negotiations implies that the interaction of key variables, such as uncertainty and the degree of acceptance of the knowledge, might yield different results in other cases. Various specific means might be used more effectively to diffuse expert knowledge among policy makers.
Keywords
NegotiationCommodityPosition (finance)Outcome (game theory)Yield (engineering)Key (lock)Knowledge managementBusinessInternational tradePolitical scienceEconomicsComputer scienceMicroeconomicsMarket economyComputer security
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- 38
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- 4
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- 733-762
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Robert L. Rothstein
(1984).
Consensual knowledge and international collaboration: some lessons from the commodity negotiations.
International Organization
, 38
(4)
, 733-762.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s002081830002693x
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- 10.1017/s002081830002693x