Economic and commercial diplomacy

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Economic and commercial diplomacy

• Dr. Boštjan Udovic,
• Centre of International Relations
• Faculty of Social Sciences

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Diplomacy is

• the art of letting someone have it your way.
• the art of saying nice doggie until you can
  find a rock (W. Rogers).
• the art of knowing what not to say (M. Trump).
• to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest
  way.

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The conceptualisation of diplomacy

• Diplomacy as a mean of foreign policy.
• Instruments of diplomacy.
• Diplomacy as state of art.
• The composition of diplomacy
• History,
• Structure,
• Law,
• Protocol/ceremonial.

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The structure of diplomacy
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The structure of diplomacy 1st part

• CLASSICAL DIPLOMACY
• ( or -) Commercial diplomacy.
• Public diplomacy vs. PR vs. Propaganda.
• Gunboat diplomacy.
• Cultural diplomacy.
• NEW DIPLOMACY
• Energy diplomacy,
• Oil/Gas diplomacy,
• Water diplomacy
• Finance diplomacy, etc.

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Economic and commercial diplomacy

• Historical overview
• Greece proxenos
• Rome ius hospitius
• Middle eve consuli missi vs. consuli electi.
• Italian city-states (institutionalisation).
• Louis XIV. MFA
• French Revolution
• Congress of Vienna and the Concert
• CC Treaty
• Financial crisis 1873 onwards
• WWI
• 1929
• WWII
• 1990
• 2008

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Some thinking about commercial diplomacy

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vdtWJlEDEUME
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vKbVdKZDF0ik
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?viW6iimtvqt0

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The aim(s) of ECD

• The ECD is entitled in pursuing welfare of
  states citizens by using trade and investments
  instruments.
• The ECD has to roles
• Enhancing trade for pursuing welfare
• Protecting economic relations (firms) and
  retaining the level of economic welfare.

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ECD - conceptualisation

• ED multilateral and plurilateral diplomacy,
  constituing a framework for bilateral treaties
  (e.g. G8, G20).
• CD bilateral diplomacy between state-state or
  state-enterprise.
• BD bilateral diplomacy between business entities
  and non-business actors.
• CorpD intrafirm diplomacy PR with internal
  public.

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Relations between all sub-ED
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Commercial diplomacy in SLO
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Key markets
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Structure of CD in key markets

• 26 economic attaches two entitled for
  multilateral economic diplomacy.
• 7 attaches in WB 2 in RF (1).
• Problems
• Re-activity of Slovene enterprises (Bulgaria,
  Portugal, far east).
• Cross between S and D in CD?
• Problem of X-concentration?

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• QA