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Students of international relations are led to discuss the economic dimension of their subject in terms of international trade, capital and financial flows, international investments, the flow of ideas, people and the like. But there is an ambiguity. While international relations is essentially concerned with relationships between states, it is not the state which normally conducts these flows, but private entities. The role of international economic diplomacy is generally considered to be confined to providing the international public good of a legal system within whose ambit private firms conduct their business, supposedly free of political interference.
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Price, V.C. (1993). The Decay of GATT Does Multilateralism Have a Future?. In: Morgan, R., Lorentzen, J., Leander, A., Guzzini, S. (eds) New Diplomacy in the Post-Cold War World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22738-9_12
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