Jeswald W. Salacuse is Henry J. Braker Professor of Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He served as The Fletcher School's Dean for nine years. With broad experience in higher education, international development, the mutual fund industry, and legal practice, he specializes in international investment law, international negotiation, international business transactions, and law and development. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an A.B. from Hamilton College, and a diploma from the University of Paris. He has been a lecturer in law at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, a lawyer with a Wall Street law firm, a professor of law and director of research at the National School of Administration in the Congo, the Ford Foundation's Middle East advisor on law and development based in Beirut, Lebanon, and later the Foundation's representative in the Sudan. For six years, he served as Dean of the School of Law of Southern Methodist University, and he has been

Arguing that life is really a series of negotiations, deal making, and diplomacy, Salacuse gives readers the tools to make the most of any situation

1. Negotiated Lives 2. Strategies for Conflict 3. To Negotiate or Not? 4. The Power Problem 5. Negotiation Goals: Transactions and Relationships 6. Real Leaders Negotiate 7. Negotiating with Governments 8. Negotiating for Other People 9. International and Cross Cultural Negotiations 10. The Power of Preparation 11. Your Place or Mine? Deciding Where to Negotiate 12. Opening Moves 13. Getting By With a Little Help from Your Friends 14. Finding the Right Voice: Effective Communication at the Table 15. The Endgame: Closing the Deal 16. Implementing Deals 17. On Second Thought: Redoing the Deal