Commercial Diplomacy and International Business: Inseparable Twins?

The world economy is a dynamic environment full of opportunity and risk for international business. Such dynamism creates new political and economic space for the development of international business oppor- tunities in fast developing economies including Brazil, China and India (Salmi & Scott-Kennel, 2012), but it also increases economic risks for in- ternational businesses with investments in declining or even crisis rid- den developed economies such as Greece.