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EXCHANGE: Issue 5 Autumn 2011

Inside AUTUMN 2011 issue:

Exclusive interview with Jean-Marc Peterschmitt, Managing Director, Central and South Eastern Europe of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

EBRD Examines investment opportunities in South East Europe. Read article here

 


Inside SUMMER 2011 issue:


Exclusive interview with His Excellency Dr Emil Brix, Ambassador of Austria to the UK.

Austria Fosters Opportunities in the Western Balkans

 

 
 

    EXCHANGE: The Magazine for international Business and Diplomacy - Issue 4 Summer 2011

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

On the cover: Austria Fosters Opportunities in the Western Balkans

Exclusive interview with His Excellency Dr Emil Brix, Ambassador of Austria to the UK

View the DIGITAL version here

LEADERS:

Tracking potential: ‘Exchange’ Examines Opportunities in South Eastern Europe  

No Universal Formula for After-Crisis Era 

Arab Revolutions: Any Winners Yet?  

Inter-Continent Trade, Business Diplomacy, and Fuzzy Logic 

Editor’s Letter

Kosovo: An Emerging Business Hub

Exchange talks to His Excellency Dr Muhamet Hamiti, Ambassador of Kosovo to the UK

A One-stop Gateway to a Better Economic Environment

Exchange talks to His Excellency Mr. Fakhraddin Gurbanov, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the United Kingdom

Privatization Now: Key to Slovenian Recovery

Exchange talks to His Excellency Mr Andrew Page HM Ambassador to Slovenia

Slovenia: Entrepreneurship to Lead Away from Crisis

Exchange talks to Mr. Matjaz Kovacic President of the Management Board, Nova Kreditna Banka Maribor

Sustainable Energy Hotspot: South-East Europe’s Chance to Bounce Back

Diana Bozhilova, AKC, PhD

UKTI Partners a Nation of Entrepreneurs

Exchange interviews Susan Haird Acting Chief Executive of UK Trade & Investment

Spring and Federalism under the Arab Sun

Professor Jacques Couvas (Exchange Associate Editor)

Building Bridges or Weaving Webs? The Increasing role of Fuzzy Networks in Economic Diplomacy

Professor Peter A.G. van Bergeijk

Middle East Stripped by Plenty: A Remix (or: Remake)

Binoy Kampmark, PhD

Roadmap to Investor Returns? The Impact of Trade, Development and Foreign Investment in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process.

Alice Campbell-Cree, MA

Arab Reform: Transplanting Federalism to North Africa and the Middle East.

Nasos Mihalakas, Associate Professor

More than just another BRIC in the Wall

John Battersby and Yingni Lu

 
 
   

EXCHANGE: The Magazine for international Business and Diplomacy, No. 3 Spring 2011

Inside this issue:

Special Reports on the Gulf States 

Download the PDF here

 

Editor’s Letter

... the political unrest in the Arab world in general, and Bahrain in particular, has raised fears of a spillover effect which could have a negative impact on trade and foreign direct investment. However, most Gulf States will continue to remain an attractive region to invest in, with United Arab Emirates in particular offering the most business friendly and politically stable environment. More here

Winds of Cooperation - A Positive Change of Course for the Gulf 

Editorial

Exclusive interview with the Rt Hon Alan Duncan MP

UK Minister of International Development

Lessons in Leadership, and in its Opposite

By Jacques Couvas: Exchange Associate Editor, Visiting Professor of Management at Ozyegin University, Istanbul and Senior Lecturer of Strategic Management at Bilkent University, Ankara

Reformation in the Middle East - the Implications of the Region's Political Unrest for Foreign Direct Investment

By Khalid Almezaini: Rsearch fellow at the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

GCC States’ Economic Ascendance - an Opportunity

By Abdullah Baabood, Director, Gulf Research Centre, University of Cambridge, IBDE Advisory Board Member

Debt Crisis - Déjà Vu? Brazil in the '80s

By Charles de Chassiron, Former British Ambassador, IBDE Advisory Board Member

The Transformation of Diplomacy - Why do Diplomats Need to Understand How the Business World Operates?

By Didzis Klavins, a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Latvia


Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - An Example of Successful International Commercial Diplomacy

By:  Matthew A. Peluso, Esq.

Kosovo - the "Reset Button" on Foreign Aid: A report from "The Support Project on Economic Diplomacy" - Kosovo

By Ivan S. Abrams, Chief of the USAID-funded Kosovo Ministry of Foreign Affairs Support (KMFAS) Project. 

Robert McDaniel, Senior Economic Diplomacy Advisor to the KMFAS

Arben Sh. Gashi, Lawyer working with the Economic Diplomacy Project

China’s Investments in Europe - To Save or Not to Save the Euro?

By Nasos Mihalakas: Assistant Professor of International Trade Law, New York University, Tirana

China’s Investments in Greece - Creating Economic Opportunities for both Nations

By: Nasos Mihalakas: Assistant Professor of International Trade Law, New York University, Tirana

 
   

EXCHANGE: The Magazine for International Business and Diplomacy - Issue 2 Winter 2010

EXCHANGE: The Magazine for International Business and Diplomacy - Issue 1 Autumn 2010

INSIDE: Special reports on the Western Balkan countries

 

INSIDE: Exclusive Interview with His Excellency Mr Zef Mazi

 

   

   

Put the Western Balkans at the Top of your Investment List - as Regional Cooperation and Business Opportunities expand together 

Editorial

Businesspeople and diplomats need one another’s expertise to be effective in a global market place  

Editorial

Businesspeople, academics, playwrights: a breed of diplomats in demand

By Jacques Couvas: Senior Lecturer of Strategic Management at Bilkent University,

Exchange Interviews the Albanian Ambassador to the UK and the Republic of Ireland

His Excellency Mr Zef Mazi 

What a Good Commercial Diplomat Has to Know and Be Capable Of

By Olivier Naray: PhD candidate in Management University of Neuchâtel, CH

How about some real Black Sea Economic Cooperation?

By Erhard Busek – Former Austrian Vice-Chancellor      

Doing Business in the Balkans

By Kurt Bayer: Board Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development – EBRD

The impact of political and diplomatic disputes in international business activity

By Michael Johnson Expert on international trade policy

Good Neighbours Matter: The Economic Opportunity of Human Rights Protection

By Todd Landman: Professor of Government and Director, Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution, University of Essex

Terence Huw Edwards: Lecturer in Economics, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University

David Kernohan: Professor of Economics & Head of the Department for Economics and Statistics, Middlesex

Running an international business requires effective international business diplomacy

By Geza Feketekuty – Founder of the Institute for International Trade and Commercial Diplomacy


The age of conundrums – coping with inexplicable trends in the global economy

By Vanessa Rossi – Senior Research Fellow in International Economics, Chatham House, London.

When the business of business became everybody’s business

By Maria Rydahl Ahlgreen: MSc. Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark & MA International Relations, Middlesex University, UK

Strategic depth: Regional diplomatic hegemony at the service of national industry and commerce

By Jacques N. Couvas - Senior Lecturer of strategic management at Bilkent University, Ankara

The Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas - Hugo Chavez’s Bold Plan

By Joel D. Hirst: International Affairs Fellow in Residence at the Council on Foreign Relations

Business diplomacy in countries in transition

By Bernadett Koles & Alexios Antypas - Central European University Business School

The de facto free trade area in East Asia

By Thomas Hale: Visiting Fellow at the LSE Global Governance and a PhD candidate at Princeton University

Corporate responsibility as business diplomacy

By Matthias S. Fifka – Lecturer in International Business and Politics, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Germany

Corporate governance, reform and British influence

By Alfred Kovaci - Deputy Chief Executive, IBDE

Intercultural communication for the international businessperson

By Francisco Javier Orjales-Mourente - MA in Diplomatic Studies

Handling complexities: Operation in complex and emerging markets

By Francesca Panini - Business Analyst at Source8 Ltd.

EU’s role in the regional cooperation within Southeast Europe

By Agim Becaj - Analyst at Morgan Stanley

   
 
   

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