Dr. Timo Kivimäki has been professor of the University of Helsinki, Copenhagen and Lapland, and the Director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (University of Copenhagen) and the Institute of Asian Studies (University of Helsinki). He has also been a frequent adviser to the Finnish, Danish, Dutch, Russian, Indonesian and Swedish governments, as well as to several UN and EU organizations on conflict and peace negotiation. Dr. Kivimäki’s latest book, Can Peace Research Make Peace? was published by Ashgate in 2012.

• Contents: Introduction; The negotiations; Research design; Bargaining during hegemonic transition; Bargaining during integral hegemony; Emerging challenge to the hegemonic order; Second phase of hegemonic decline; Bargaining during minimal hegemony; Post-hegemonic bargaining; Conclusions: strength of weakness; References; Annexes; Index.

'Kivimäki's study is the result of meticulous research into all available public and private sources, combined into an illuminating analysis of asymmetric bargaining that makes an important contribution to foreign policy and negotiation literature. In addition, it is an exciting story.' Dr I. William Zartman, Johns Hopkins University, USA '...offers an in-depth analysis of the strengths of and limits on Indonesian bargaining in its bilateral relations with the USA...rich in detail and reflects very considerable research.' Journal of Peace Research 'The author should be commended for intensive research and extensive interviews with important players in the "bargaining" process.' USI Journal