5th Edition

The New Economic Diplomacy Decision-Making and Negotiation in International Economic Relations

Edited By Stephen Woolcock Copyright 2025
288 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The New Economic Diplomacy , fifth edition, 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 – and the means with which to analyse – the processes of decision-making and negotiation in international economic relations and clarifies our... Read more

1.     What is economic diplomacy? 

Steve Woolcock

2.     An Analytical Tool Kit

Stephen Woolcock

3.     Economic Diplomacy in Practice

Stephen Woolcock

4.     Responses to Recent Challenges: China and the West

Ken Heydon

5.     US Economic Diplomacy

Alexander Bobroske

6.      Conceptualising China’s new economic diplomacy: conversion between wealth and power

Professor Zhang Xiaotong

7.     EU economic diplomacy: A decade of reckoning

Maaike Okano-Heijmans

8.     United Kingdom Trade Diplomacy: lessons from the (re)establishment of an independent trade policy

John Alty

9.     Tax Diplomacy: Kenya’s Engagement in the Inclusive Framework (IF)

Andrew Nikko Osiany

10.  World Trade Organisation (WTO) Negotiations – how to “get it right”

Victor do Prado

11.  Negotiating Climate Change: The importance of process in multilateral negotiations

Kate Helfenstein, Joseph Earsom, and Frauke Pipart

12.  Negotiating International Economic and Financial Cooperation:  The global financial crisis and its aftermath

Stephen Pickford

13.  Conclusions

Stephen Woolcock

Biography

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.