Reconciling Institutional Actors of Economic Diplomacy: The Case of Slovakia

Reconciling Institutional Actors of Economic Diplomacy: The Case of Slovakia

economic diplomacy

foreign service

bureaucratic politics

Slovakia

In the centre of this essay is a tension that under certain circumstances may appear between various state actors involved in economic diplomacy. In the case of the Slovak economic diplomacy both the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and the Ministry of Economy are the main actors in external economic relations. The paper briefly describes the origins of the tension between them and the reconciliation process that took place in the 10 years since the last reform of Slovakia’s economic diplomacy. The crucial reconciling role of the Government’s advisory body, the Council on Export and Investment Promotion, co-chaired by the ministers of foreign affairs and economy, is explained within the presented descriptive case study inbureaucratic politics. The article contributes to the conceptual discourse on economic diplomacy, while extending the theoretical and empirical knowledge of the subject with regard to the behavior of its main power actors econand the tensions between them.

Csabay, Marek

Cséfalvayová, Katerina

Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 57 No. 2 (2022); 7-37

2788-2993

2788-2985

10.32422/cjir.57.2

Institute of International Relations Prague

2022-10-05

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