CONTENTS -- Introduction Economic Diplomacy: The Issues -- Conceptualizing Economic Diplomacy: The Crossroads of International Relations, Economics, IPE and Diplomatic Studies -- Globalism Ascendant, Regionalism Stagnant: Japan's Response to the Global Financial Crisis -- 'Great Power Style' in China's Economic Diplomacy: Filling the Shoes of a Benign Hegemon? -- EU Economic Diplomacy: The Factors Shaping Common Action -- The Economic Effectiveness of Diplomatic Representation: An Economic Analysis of its Contribution to Bilateral Trade -- Commercial Diplomats in the Context of International Business -- Any Ties that Bind? Economic Diplomacy on the South Asian Subcontinent -- Economic Diplomacy in a Changing World -- The Diplomacy of the Financial Crisis in Context -- Development Cooperation as Economic Diplomacy? -- Subject Index -- Name Index.