Amphibious Diplomacy

Abstract The European Union (EU) and Taiwan (officially the Republic of China) are both non-conventional polities in international relations study diplomacy. On one hand, EU is a ‘unique economic political union between 27 countries’. other able to concurrently carry out two distinct forms foreign relations. First, diplomacy as sovereign country with states that it maintains formal diplomatic Second, without ties, under their divergent ‘One China’ policies, operates paradiplomatic actor or within intervals paradiplomacy. Observing such phenomenon, this article proposes notion ‘amphibious diplomacy’ empirically studies through how, practice, have been carrying negotiation Bilateral Investment Agreement ( bia ) given constraints an absence EU’s policy. incorporates first-hand material from semi-structured interviews interlocutors whose work allows them obtain practical knowledge about EU-Taiwan .