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Goddard, Stacie. "Uncommon Ground: the making of indivisible conflict" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64405_index.html>

Goddard, S. , 2003-08-27 "Uncommon Ground: the making of indivisible conflict" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64405_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: It is the most intuitive of mechanisms that accounts for much of international conflict. If an issue appears indivisible, a negotiated settlement becomes impossible: when there is no division of an issue acceptable to all sides in a conflict, the range of settlements disappears, and negotiations degenerate into an all-or-nothing game. I argue that whether or not an issue appears to be indivisible depends upon how actors legitimate their claims to an issue. While actors choose their legitimations strategically, in order to gain a short-term advantage at the bargaining table, legitimation strategies can have what network sociologists call “switching effects”: by resonating with some actors and not others, legitimation strategies can either build ties between bargaining positions, allowing each side to recognize the legitimacy of each other’s claims, or else lock actors into positions that leave them unable to recognize other demands as legitimate. When the latter happens, actors come to the table with mutually incompatible claims, defining the issue as indivisible.

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