Back Channel Negotiation¶
Wanis-St. John, A. (2011). Back Channel Negotiation: Secrecy in the Middle East Peace Process. Syracuse University Press.
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- Channel
- Cold War scholarship treats diplomatic backchannels explicitly as channels with low capacity, high authenticity, and high deniability — different parameter values on the same object.
This sourceTreats secret back-channels as low-capacity, high-deniability diplomatic channels distinct from acknowledged front channels — different parameter values on the same conduit.
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The publisher's page shows the book treats secret 'back channel' negotiation as distinct from acknowledged negotiating teams, but it supplies none of the claimed capacity/authenticity/deniability parameters and is not Cold War scholarship.
“Wanis-St. John discusses how top level PLO and Israeli government officials often resorted to secret negotiation channels even when they had designated, acknowledged negotiation teams already at work.”
- Cold War scholarship treats diplomatic backchannels explicitly as channels with low capacity, high authenticity, and high deniability — different parameter values on the same object.
- Information Hiding
- In diplomacy it is back-channel negotiations behind public positions, intelligence sources-and-methods protection, and deliberate ambiguity in nuclear posture.
This sourceDocuments back-channel diplomacy — secret negotiations conducted behind public 'front-channel' positions — the diplomacy instance of concealing internal deliberation behind a stable public surface.
Supported in partVerified against the work's full text
Supplies the diplomacy instance only: back-channel negotiation is secret negotiation forced by public scrutiny and constituent pressure on the front channel; the other devices listed in the sentence are outside this work.
“Intense scrutiny of the media, pressure from constituents, and the public’s reaction, all become severe constraints to the process, causing leaders to seek out back channel negotiations.”
- In diplomacy it is back-channel negotiations behind public positions, intelligence sources-and-methods protection, and deliberate ambiguity in nuclear posture.
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