Singh

Communication and Diplomacy

This is the first book length treatment of international negotiations formulating the global information economy. It shows how negotiations and diplomacy make a difference in defining important international outcomes. Apart from published sources, the book is based on extensive interviews with key negotiators in the United States, the European Union countries, Switzerland and Australia. The book shows that negotiations processes and outcomes are crucial to understanding not just the global information economy but also to modify theoretical claims in international political economy, which at the level of grand theorizing overlook the nitty-gritty everydag workings of diplomacy.