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This book explores how states conduct their external economic relations, make domestic decisions, negotiate internationally, and how these processes interact. It provides the reader with an understanding of the processes of decision making and negotiation in international economic relations.
List of contents
1. What is economic diplomacy? 2. An Analytical Tool Kit3. Economic Diplomacy in Practice4. Responses to Recent Challenges: China and the West5. US Economic Diplomacy6.
Conceptualising China's new economic diplomacy: conversion between wealth and power7. EU economic diplomacy: A decade of reckoning8. United Kingdom Trade Diplomacy: lessons from the (re)establishment of an independent trade policy9. Tax Diplomacy: Kenya's Engagement in the Inclusive Framework (IF)10.
World Trade Organisation (WTO) Negotiations - how to "get it right"11. Negotiating Climate Change: The importance of process in multilateral negotiations12. Negotiating International Economic and Financial Cooperation: The global financial crisis and its aftermath13. Conclusions
About the author
Stephen Woolcock was formerly Associate Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he taught and researched on international trade and investment as well as economic diplomacy. For 20 years, he coordinated the master's course on economic diplomacy. Before joining the LSE, he worked in policy research at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London. He continues to research and write on trade and economic diplomacy.
