Negotiations are sometimes referred to as "the art of the possible". This course, entitled "Negotiations and the Modern Presidency" will utilize US presidential history as a backdrop for analyzing successful, and failed, negotiations and what we can learn from them.

Topics to be explored are:

• Basic principles of negotiation
• Changes brought about in post-World War II America
• Negotiations and the civil rights movement
• Negotiating America's role in the world
• Negotiating War and Peace.