This record contains a bilingual TESPA Strategy working paper. The first part presents the English version of the paper, Analyzing Negotiations Before They Start II: Materialized Starting-Point Architecture: How Pre-Negotiation Fields Become Material Architectures of Settlement Power. The second part provides an authored Ukrainian companion version. The Ukrainian version is not an automated translation. It is prepared as a companion text for Ukrainian academic, policy, and analytical audiences. The paper develops the TESPA framework for analyzing negotiations before their formal start by introducing the concept of materialized starting-point architecture. It argues that future settlements are shaped not only by diplomatic formats, narratives, mandates, or public declarations, but also by the material conditions constructed before formal talks begin: air defence, defence-industrial production, missile continuity, drone and counter-drone capacity, sanctions, frozen assets, logistics, procurement systems, security guarantees, and enforcement mechanisms. Using the Ukraine-related diplomatic and security environment after the 2026 Ankara NATO Summit as a demonstration case, the paper shows how settlement power is built before settlement.
Natalia Tymoshenko (Fri,) studied this question.