Evangelos Raftopoulos is Professor of International Law and International Environmental Law at Panteion University of Athens. He is also the Founding Director of MEPIELAN Centre/Panteion University of Athens, an officially accredited UNEP/MAP Partner and a Member of the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development. Educated at the University of Cambridge (Ph.D. (Cantab), LL.M. (Cantab), and Athens (LL.B.), he has been recently a Visiting Scholar at Downing College, University of Cambridge. He has participated in more than seventy international environmental conferences and meetings and has authored eleven books, numerous articles, and international reports.

'Raftopoulos challenges scholars of international relations and international law to think of the treaty process as an integrated set of interim, subjective practices. He promotes a relational theory that treats the links between negotiations and treaties as an ongoing process of promoting global welfare. His approach goes well beyond conventional strategic power based theories of international relations and static positive theories by international lawyers about the nature of multilateralism itself.' Peter M. Haas, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Part I. Theoretical Approaches to International Negotiations and International Common Interest; Section 1. The 'Theorization' of International Negotiation; Part II. The Negotiation Phases in the Conventional Construction of International Common Interest; Section 3. The Pre-Negotiation Phase as a Process of Transformative Governance.

Evangelos Raftopoulos is Professor of International Law and International Environmental Law at Panteion University of Athens. He is also the Founding Director of MEPIELAN Centre/Panteion University of Athens, an officially accredited UNEP/MAP Partner and a Member of the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development. Educated at the University of Cambridge (Ph.D. (Cantab), LL.M. (Cantab), and Athens (LL.B.), he has been recently a Visiting Scholar at Downing College, University of Cambridge. He has participated in more than seventy international environmental conferences and meetings and has authored eleven books, numerous articles, and international reports.

'Raftopoulos challenges scholars of international relations and international law to think of the treaty process as an integrated set of interim, subjective practices. He promotes a relational theory that treats the links between negotiations and treaties as an ongoing process of promoting global welfare. His approach goes well beyond conventional strategic power based theories of international relations and static positive theories by international lawyers about the nature of multilateralism itself.' Peter M. Haas, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Part I. Theoretical Approaches to International Negotiations and International Common Interest; Section 1. The 'Theorization' of International Negotiation; Part II. The Negotiation Phases in the Conventional Construction of International Common Interest; Section 3. The Pre-Negotiation Phase as a Process of Transformative Governance.

Evangelos Raftopoulos is Professor of International Law and International Environmental Law at Panteion University of Athens. He is also the Founding Director of MEPIELAN Centre/Panteion University of Athens, an officially accredited UNEP/MAP Partner and a Member of the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development. Educated at the University of Cambridge (Ph.D. (Cantab), LL.M. (Cantab), and Athens (LL.B.), he has been recently a Visiting Scholar at Downing College, University of Cambridge. He has participated in more than seventy international environmental conferences and meetings and has authored eleven books, numerous articles, and international reports.

'Raftopoulos challenges scholars of international relations and international law to think of the treaty process as an integrated set of interim, subjective practices. He promotes a relational theory that treats the links between negotiations and treaties as an ongoing process of promoting global welfare. His approach goes well beyond conventional strategic power based theories of international relations and static positive theories by international lawyers about the nature of multilateralism itself.' Peter M. Haas, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Part I. Theoretical Approaches to International Negotiations and International Common Interest; Section 1. The 'Theorization' of International Negotiation; Part II. The Negotiation Phases in the Conventional Construction of International Common Interest; Section 3. The Pre-Negotiation Phase as a Process of Transformative Governance.