Fredrik Stanton
Author, "Great Negotiations: Agreements that Changed the Modern World"
Author of Great Negotiations: Agreements that Changed the Modern World, Fredrik Stanton is the former president and publisher of the Columbia Daily Spectator, the seventh largest English-speaking daily newspaper in New York City. He has also written for the Boston Herald and the United Nations Association's A Global Agenda. Stanton has served as an election monitor in Armenia, Republic of Georgia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Azerbaijan.
He received a BA in Political Science from Columbia University.
In 1905 President Roosevelt acted as mediator between a warring Russia and Japan, preventing global escalation and allowing both to save face while ending their costly conflict—a lesson on the […]
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During difficult negotiations, it is often important to start small and build up to the more intractable sticking points, as evidenced by the successful 1949 armistice agreements between Israel and […]
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The post-Napoleonic 1814 meeting of Europe’s heads of state provides a case study of exploiting divisions among your opponents during any sort of negotiation.
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In 1803 the U.S. negotiated probably the best real estate deal in history, taking advantage of Napoleon’s need for cash to fund his European expansion.
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