IR355 Half Unit
Economic Diplomacy
This information is for the 2015/16 session.
Teacher responsible
Dr Stephen Woolcock CLM 613
The course is coordinated by an LSE academic but is supported by an experienced practitioner of economic diplomacy Sir Nicholas Bayne, former UK foreign service and ambassador and Kenneth Heydon (formerly Deputy Director at the OECD in Paris).
Availability
This course is available on the BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and International Relations. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
Pre-requisites
Students must have completed International Political Economy (IR204).
Course content
The course introduces students to the theories and analytical frameworks relating to decision-making and negotiation in international economic relations and enables them to develop the skills needed to apply these to cases. It discusses the roles of the main actors, institutional settings and processes involved in domestic decision-making and international economic negotiations, and their interaction with each other. It provides students with both academic and practitioner perspectives of economic diplomacy and offers participants an opportunity to understand the challenges faced by negotiators through the simulation of a current multilateral negotiation.
Teaching
10 hours of lectures, 9 hours of classes and 3 hours of workshops in the LT.
Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6, in line with departmental policy.
Formative coursework
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the LT.
Indicative reading
Bayne, Nicholas and Woolcock, S. The new economic diplomacy: decision-making and negotiation in international economic relations, Third edition, Ashgate, Stephen 2013.
Buelow, A M Culture and Negotiation, 2011
Checkel, Jeffrey Social constructivisms in global and European politics: a review essay 2004.
Odell, John Negotiating the world economy 2000.
Putnam, D Robert Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: the logic of two-level games, 1988.
Sebenius, J,K Negotiation Analysis: A characterization and review, 1992.
Assessment
Exam (70%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.
Essay (30%, 2000 words) in the LT.
Key facts
Department: International Relations
Total students 2014/15: Unavailable
Average class size 2014/15: Unavailable
Capped 2014/15: No
Value: Half Unit
PDAM skills
- Leadership
- Self-management
- Team working
- Problem solving
- Application of information skills
- Communication