International negotiation is a cryptic area of study. People relish the idea of haggling with a foreigner or anyone who comes from another country or continent or anyone from a diverse race, religion, economic, political, or ideological background. The issues of international negotiation could range from personal, business, family, government, trade, and others.

It may be perhaps only fitting that there also be a birth centenary edition of this book, which was the first ever written by the author more than half a century ago.

With several significant international events involving principles of international law, the authors were compelled to write this Fourth Edition. As a textbook in the law and political science schools, it is a reference material for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) as a required subject under Bar Matter 850 (MCLE) of the Supreme Court.

Arbitration was practiced, albeit occasionally, between the city states of ancient Greece. It was, however, during the days of the Roman Empire that arbitration was used as a means of resolving private disputes.