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"This book informs students about the practice of modern diplomacy, while simultaneously inviting them to critically reflect on it. The work introduces the world of diplomacy from a practitioner's point of view. Rather than listening to what diplomats say they do, the book looks at what they actually do. Diplomacy is thus approached through the lenses of its manifold practices: from political analysis to policy-shaping, from conflict prevention over conflict-management to conflict-resolution. However, the book not only aims at informing or instructing, but also, and primarily, wants its readers to critically reflect on diplomacy. It reviews received ideas by posing questions such as: what does 'preventive diplomacy' really mean?; what is the place of 'transparency' in diplomatic practice?; why is the relationship between 'law and diplomacy' ambiguous?; how come that our leaders have such a difficult time in credibly defending 'human rights'?; and why is conducting an 'ethical foreign policy' a mission impossible? To tackle these and other questions, the book uses the tools of contemporary academic disciplines, such as behavioural economics, game theory, social psychology, argumentation theory and practical logic, among others. This interdisciplinary approach brings fresh perspective to a field of study that has long remained self-contained. This book will be of great interest to students of diplomacy, foreign policy and International Relations, as well as those seeking a career in diplomacy and existing diplomatic practitioners and international analysts"--

"This book informs students about the practice of modern diplomacy, while simultaneously inviting them to critically reflect on it. The work introduces the world of diplomacy from a practitioner's point of view. Rather than listening to what diplomats say they do, the book looks at what they actually do. Diplomacy is thus approached through the lenses of its manifold practices: from political analysis to policy-shaping, from conflict prevention over conflict-management to conflict-resolution. However, the book not only aims at informing or instructing, but also, and primarily, wants its readers to critically reflect on diplomacy. It reviews received ideas by posing questions such as: what does 'preventive diplomacy' really mean?; what is the place of 'transparency' in diplomatic practice?; why is the relationship between 'law and diplomacy' ambiguous?; how come that our leaders have such a difficult time in credibly defending 'human rights'?; and why is conducting an 'ethical foreign policy' a mission impossible? To tackle these and other questions, the book uses the tools of contemporary academic disciplines, such as behavioural economics, game theory, social psychology, argumentation theory and practical logic, among others. This interdisciplinary approach brings fresh perspective to a field of study that has long remained self-contained. This book will be of great interest to students of diplomacy, foreign policy and International Relations, as well as those seeking a career in diplomacy and existing diplomatic practitioners and international analysts"--

Too many international business strategy textbooks slavishly adhere to mainstream conceptual models. The publication of those models in prestigious practitioner journals such as the Harvard Business Review seems to shelter them from scholarly criticism. The problem is that the policy recommendations derived from these models, while sometimes insightful, are all too often based on implicit and restrictive assumptions. They are frequently oversimplified and seldom based on a rigorous analytical framework that assesses the opportunity costs of following the recommended paths, that is the costs of foregoing alternative strategies.

Introduction / Daniel Van Den Bulcke, Alain Verbeke -- CAVE! HIC DRAGONES! Alan M. Rugman's contributions to the field of international business / Lorraine Eden -- The MNES spatial positioning / Bernard M. Wolf -- Rugman and the geography of MNE activity / John H. Dunning -- Financial and non-financial theories of international diversification / John Cantwell -- Internalization theory and the international diversification : performance conundrum / Jean-Fran(c)ʿcis Hennart -- Regional strategy and performance in the global automotive industry / Alain Verbeke, Paul Brugman -- Regional and global strategies in the intercontinental passenger airline industry : the rise of alliance-specific advantages / Alain Verbeke, Sarah Vanden Bussche -- environmental issues and the MNE / Ans Kolk -- Rethinking international management theory in a world of regional multinationals / Alan M. Rugman -- Twenty-five years of international diversification and the multinational enterprise / Alan M. Rugman

Clear and predictable rules act as a shadow in which parties can negotiate. European Private Law cannot offer such a shadow because its rules are too diffuse and incoherent. Nor can national laws provide this in a cross-border context. The European Commission's initiative to review the consumer acquis and create a more consistent body of rules through a CFR must therefore be supported. However, to the extent that the CFR goes beyond the revision of the consumer acquis and envisages the creation of a European contract law, it is argued that a fundamental step is lacking. Before drafting technical rules, an open, transparent and political dialogue is needed about the values underpinning such a contract law. This dialogue can benefit from a diversity of views, including more radical welfarist ideas. Negotiation theory shows how to set up a more open process of developing a European contract law. As in any negotiation, several tensions must be managed: between distribution and creation of value, empathy and assertiveness and between the interests of the European constituency and its political agents. New processes of empowered deliberative democracy with a consensus model of decision making may inspire a means for handling this much needed dialogue on European contract law.