The New Economic Diplomacy: Decision-making and Negotiation in International Economic Relations

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Nicholas Bayne, Stephen Woolcock
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 M01 1 - 391 pages
The New Economic Diplomacy explains how states conduct their external economic relations in the 21st century: how they make decisions domestically; how they negotiate internationally; and how these processes interact. It documents the transformation of economic diplomacy in the 1990s and early 2000s in response to the end of the Cold War, the advance of globalisation and the growing influence of non-state actors like private business and civil society. Fully updated, the second edition reflects the impact of the campaign against terrorism, the war in Iraq and the rise of major developing countries like China and India.Based on the authors' own work in the field of international political economy, it is suitable for students interested in the decision making processes in foreign economic policy including those studying International Relations, Government, Politics and Economics but will also appeal to politicians, bureaucrats, business people, NGO activists, journalists and the informed public.

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Contents

Theoretical Analysis of Economic Diplomacy
21
Figures
31
Economic Diplomacy in Practice
43
Tables
54
State Actors in Economic Diplomacy
63
NonState Actors in Economic Diplomacy
77
A Case Study of the G8
93
Is Economic Policy Democratic? And Should It Be? Questions
123
The European Union
221
Making EU International Environmental Policy
241
Plurilateralism and Multilateralism
259
The Work of the International
279
Governments the International Financial Institutions
297
The World Trade Organization
315
The Future of Economic Diplomacy
333
Bibliography
351

The Case of Investment
141
The United States
163
US Economic Diplomacy towards Asia
181

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