ABSTRACT
This chapter is about how governments use international institutions in economic diplomacy. It elaborates on one of the principal strategies in the new economic diplomacy identified in Chapter 4. It covers the ground often described by the term 'global governance'. But the study of global governance usually puts the institutions at the centre of the enquiry. In contrast, this chapter is mainly about what governments do, as members of international institutions, and how they try to make the institutions serve their national purposes, domestic as well as external. It also considers the impact of non-state actors like business and NGOs.
