In U.S. Negotiating Behavior (2002), Quinney reported that non-U.S. diplomatic negotiators and informed observers note that since the end of the Cold War, when the United States became the only remaining superpower, American negotiators bargaining in ‘‘high’’ politics (such as security issues) and ‘‘low politics’’ (such as environmental and trade issues) can be ‘‘domineering, insistent, and uncompromising. They are less concerned to negotiate, in the sense of exchanging views and exchanging concessions, than to dictate terms or to persuade their counterparts of the rightness or potency of the American position. Unilateralism has become both a policy and an attitude. Even cordial and conspicuously polite U.S. representatives tend to adopt a take it or leave it position’’ (p. 3).Furthermore, he writes, this status as a global hegemon ‘‘has aggravated a long-standing U.S. trait: namely the inclination to moralize, treat negotiation as an opportunity to reveal impeachable truth rather than to respect the other side’s worldview’’ (p. 3).