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You and I may depend on each other, but if I depend on you less than you do on me, my bargaining power is increased.
American efforts to persuade China to play a greater role in regional security arrangements may be strengthened, and China’s awareness of the vulnerability of its supply routes to US naval disruption in the unlikely event of conflict could also have a subtle effect on each side’s bargaining power.
Similarly, on all aspects of European defense integration within the European Union, France had long been the most ardent advocate of the sanctity of national sovereignty; her recent rapprochement to NATO was possible only because the Western Alliance, with the collapse of its old rival, has become a more traditional military pact anyway, less shaped by American leadership and more open to intergovernmental bargaining.
At the same time, his government raised taxes, increased social expenditures, and strengthened collective bargaining in a deal with the unions.
It is well known that decentralized bargaining processes for debt restructuring often lead to disastrous outcomes, with the relief obtained being insufficient to restore debt sustainability.
It may well be that such painful deviations from agreed principles will be reflected in an eventual comprehensive settlement, but prejudging these issues before the beginning of negotiations denies the Palestinians some of their most important bargaining chips.
Yes, he should have adopted a more conciliatory style and shown greater appreciation for the norms of European negotiations; and, yes, he overestimated Greece’s bargaining power, wrongly assuming that pressing the threat of Grexit would compel his European partners to reconsider their long-entrenched positions.
And the same challenge hides behind the formula of “inclusion of the Taliban” in any settlement for Afghanistan, because the Taliban have no bargaining power without Pakistan, as recent events have shown.
Turkey sees its growing influence in the region as a card to play in bargaining for EU membership.
Of course, international summits are usually an occasion for countries to sign agreements, not for the hard bargaining that can begin to improve their relations with one another.
But this is true only in a “normal” negotiation where both partners use the threat of tariffs as their main bargaining tool.
The bargaining has begun.
The passage of time ought to help with this bargaining.
Indeed, the main factor fueling the current crisis and complicating its resolution is that the North has only one bargaining chip: threats.
Just as the North called the recent missile a “satellite,” an underground explosion caused by conventional explosives cannot be used as a bargaining chip unless it is called a “nuclear test.”
Weaker unions and workers’ reduced bargaining power have flattened out the Phillips curve, with low structural unemployment producing little wage inflation.
Seasonal and rural workers lack access to collective bargaining, and undocumented migrant workers avoid unions for fear that employers will retaliate by calling the immigration authorities.
Defending Russia’s national interests, in their view, demands hard bargaining tactics, even if these now verge on the comical, as in the recent case of supposed British spies hiding secrets in a rock in a Moscow park.
Why should the US refrain from using its overwhelming bargaining power?
China’s hard bargaining with Russia has exposed the limits of the two countries’ bilateral cooperation, which has important geo-strategic consequences for Asia and the world.
In certain bargaining situations, weakness and the threat of collapse can be a source of power.
To take a well-known example, if you owe a bank $1,000, the bank has power over you; but if you owe the bank $1 billion, you may have considerable bargaining power over the bank.
What is really needed, however, is action to enhance human capital; to adapt and improve income-redistribution instruments; and to promote equality in market incomes, including by boosting workers’ bargaining power.
The proposed reforms would make it easier for firms to dismiss employees, decentralize bargaining between employers and workers in small firms (by eliminating sector-level agreements), and introduce a ceiling on indemnity for wrongful dismissal, providing firms relief from the unpredictability of damages awarded through arbitration.
New Zealand’s Laborites privatized the postal system and many other public enterprises, and changed the country’s employment system from highly centralized collective bargaining to one that gave employers considerable discretion to hire and fire and to pay market-determined wages.
But Britain needs the EU market more than the EU needs Britain’s, so the bargaining would be asymmetric.
We argued that more responsive economies have fewer employment protections to scare entrepreneurs away from starting new firms, and have less industry-wide or economy-wide wage bargaining, which may also deter entrepreneurs.
But the theory of usury survived in the view that it was morally wrong to extract some additional amount that was made feasible by the borrower’s weak bargaining position or extreme need.
To secure Lebanon, and to bring Hamas to the bargaining table with Israel, it is Syria that Israel and the United States must deal with, one way or another.
But China does not actually need to limit access to its own markets to sustain its growth, because it can increase its bargaining power by merely threatening to do so.
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