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The diplomat despaired of Cameron's approach, of his failure to negotiate when negotiation, compromise and alliance building will be essential to him in the years ahead.
Yet these explanations are often merely symptoms that mask another problem: the failure to negotiate explicitly an effective negotiation process.
We should talk to Hamas, not because negotiations will necessarily get anywhere, but because a failure to negotiate will necessarily get nowhere.
Indeed, Washington's recent failure to negotiate a "Grand Bargain" over its fiscal policy and the failure of negotiations to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict share a similar underlying cause: In both cases, those on the political extreme have easily blocked a weakened political center from making a difficult compromise.
Moreover, a failure to negotiate with terrorists often results in a failure to negotiate effectively with the families of hostages.
Or a bank's failure to negotiate a more favorable outcome.
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Failure to do so is just bad business, no, make that TERRIBLE business, incompent negotiation failure to negotiated effectively at a malpractice level.
After nine failures to negotiate the promotion play-offs Preston will take nothing for granted in their pursuit of a place in the Championship.
The failure of Europe to negotiate a free trade agreement with America, the TTIP, is really worrying.
So the lessons to be learned from Thucydides are no different from the ones that the tragic playwrights teach: that the arrogant self can become the abject Other; that failure to bend, to negotiate, inevitably results in terrible fracture; that, because we are only human, our knowledge is merely knowingness, our vision partial rather than whole, and we must tread carefully in the world.
But in the case of the US budget, the failure of politicians to negotiate their icy communication crevasse could have ruinous consequences.
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