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Governments pursue international negotiations to achieve outcomes that they cannot obtain through unilateral action. Trade and environment negotiations have become particularly important in this regard, as their political and economic saliency increase. This course will first focus on environment negotiations, particularly those related to establishing, maintaining, revising, and expanding the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Paris Agreement on climate change. The second half of the semester focuses on trade negotiations, with case studies drawn from bilateral negotiations as well as talks under the frameworks of the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the United Kingdom’s need for new trade agreements with its trading partners as part of its Brexit negotiations. An understanding of negotiation theory and how environment and trade negotiations are conducted will help the student to analyze the evolving international institutions in these issue areas as well as to make policy recommendations to adjust the process and outcomes of future negotiating rounds. <a href="http://bit.ly/1bebp5s" target="_blank">Click here to see evaluations, syllabi, and faculty bios</a>