Heather Elko McKibben is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis. She received her PhD in political science at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to her current position, she held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, New Jersey.

• 1. Introduction: it's a question of strategies; Part I. Rule-Compliant/Rule-Changing Framework: 2. Typology of bargaining strategies; 3. How states play by the rules; 4. When and why states change the rules; Part II. Research Design and Empirical Tests: 5. Playing by the rules in European Union negotiations; 6. Playing by the rules in GATT/WTO negotiations; 7. Changing the rules in climate change negotiations; 8. Changing the rules in the Kosovo status process; 9. Bargaining strategies, and beyond.

'Uses extensive empirical research to cast fresh light on the understudied question of why states use different bargaining strategies at different times. Other scholars should read this interesting contribution.' John Odell, University of Southern California

Heather Elko McKibben is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis. She received her PhD in political science at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to her current position, she held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, New Jersey.

• 1. Introduction: it's a question of strategies; Part I. Rule-Compliant/Rule-Changing Framework: 2. Typology of bargaining strategies; 3. How states play by the rules; 4. When and why states change the rules; Part II. Research Design and Empirical Tests: 5. Playing by the rules in European Union negotiations; 6. Playing by the rules in GATT/WTO negotiations; 7. Changing the rules in climate change negotiations; 8. Changing the rules in the Kosovo status process; 9. Bargaining strategies, and beyond.

'Uses extensive empirical research to cast fresh light on the understudied question of why states use different bargaining strategies at different times. Other scholars should read this interesting contribution.' John Odell, University of Southern California

Heather Elko McKibben is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis. She received her PhD in political science at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to her current position, she held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, New Jersey.

• 1. Introduction: it's a question of strategies; Part I. Rule-Compliant/Rule-Changing Framework: 2. Typology of bargaining strategies; 3. How states play by the rules; 4. When and why states change the rules; Part II. Research Design and Empirical Tests: 5. Playing by the rules in European Union negotiations; 6. Playing by the rules in GATT/WTO negotiations; 7. Changing the rules in climate change negotiations; 8. Changing the rules in the Kosovo status process; 9. Bargaining strategies, and beyond.

'Uses extensive empirical research to cast fresh light on the understudied question of why states use different bargaining strategies at different times. Other scholars should read this interesting contribution.' John Odell, University of Southern California