This chapter investigates how economic diplomacy can be used to generate and increase economic security. The first section sets out a definition for economic diplomacy, uncovers some of the historical roots and discusses empirical findings on the trade - conflict - cooperation relationships. The...

This paper presents a meta-analysis of the effects of economic diplomacy on international flows (trade and FDI). The tools of economic diplomacy under investigation in our study are: embassies, other foreign offices, investment promotion offices, export promotion offices, trade missions and...

We collected 95 primary studies that deploy the gravity model and use a dummy for islands as a controlling variable. Our analysis rejects the presence of (publication) bias in the empirical literature. The primary studies reveal a statistically positive and economically meaningful meta effect....