by Richard J. Smith
16. November 2010 04:06
When I brought some boxes of notes and other papers into retirement with me, my wife, Ann, said to me “there are some interesting stories in this stuff ─ you ought to write a book.” Eventually I did because I felt that the inside stories of the negotiations that I led during my final nine years in the Foreign Service did need to be preserved.
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by Richard J. Smith
8. September 2010 03:41
The 1987 Montreal Protocol to the Vienna Convention on the protection of the Ozone Layer was a pivotal agreement in the history of global environmental agreements. What was it about the negotiation of that agreement that made it such an iconic event and what useful lessons does it hold for climate change negotiators?
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by Richard J. Smith
26. August 2010 10:22
