Emerging Issues in European Economic Diplomacy
Economic diplomacy is a multifaceted tool that European countries, both individually and collectively through the EU, use to promote their economic interests, enhance their global standing, and address pressing global challenges. In his book, Andreas N. Papastamou, Professor of European Economics and Economic Diplomacy, who served as an economic diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece for 23 years, analyses contemporary challenges of economic diplomacy, from the impending reconstruction of Ukraine and the response to increasingly frequent international geopolitical shocks, to the relationship between the promotion of states' commercial interests and development cooperation and human rights.
The book has six chapters, covering major challenges of economic diplomacy for the European Union. The first chapter is a fruitful overview of the history of economic diplomacy from the cultures of antiquity to the 21st century, with the contemporary challenges of globalization, digitalization and sustainable development. The second chapter examines the means available to economic diplomacy in Europe to deal with increasingly frequent international geopolitical shocks. The third chapter highlights the plans of European institutions and states for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine. The fourth chapter examines the sensitive aspects of trade diplomacy and development cooperation with human rights. The fifth chapter focuses on the training of economic diplomacy officers and the sixth chapter on the role of European universities in dealing with economic crises.
Andreas N. Papastamou is Professor of European Economics and Economic Diplomacy at the Department of International & European Studies, Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences, Athens (Greece), where he was Director of the Department of International Political Economy. He served for 23 years as a diplomatic advisor for economic relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece, with positions at the Consulate General of Greece in Istanbul, the Embassy of Greece in Skopje, and the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations in Geneva. He also served as economic advisor to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece (2000-2004) and as advisor to the General Secretariat of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras (2012-2015). He studied economics at the University of Athens, regional development at Panteion University and European economics at the Institut d'études européennes de l'Université libre de Bruxelles. His authorial work includes the publication of nine books in Greek, and more than 40 articles in Greek and foreign scientific journals.