Consular Affairs and Diplomacy

Consular Affairs and Diplomacy
Author: Jan Melissen
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2011-02-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004188762

Consular Affairs and Diplomacy analyses the nature of diplomacy’s consular dimension in international relations. It contributes to our understanding of key themes in consular affairs today, the challenges that are facing the three great powers, as well as the historical origins of the consular institution.

Inside a U.S. Embassy

Inside a U.S. Embassy
Author: Shawn Dorman
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1612344674

Inside a U.S. Embassy is widely recognized as the essential guide to the Foreign Service. This all-new third edition takes readers to more than fifty U.S. missions around the world, introducing Foreign Service professionals and providing detailed descriptions of their jobs and firsthand accounts of diplomacy in action. In addition to profiles of diplomats and specialists around the world-from the ambassador to the consular officer, the public diplomacy officer to the security specialist-is a selection from more than twenty countries of day-in-the-life accounts, each describing an actual day on.

The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Treaties

The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Treaties
Author: Simon Chesterman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2019
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0190947845

This book brings together world experts on the United Nations and international law, to examine not only the content of that legal regime but how it has been transformed since the second half of the twentieth century.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy
Author: Andrew Fenton Cooper
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 990
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199588864

Including chapters from some of the leading experts in the field this Handbook provides a full overview of the nature and challenges of modern diplomacy and includes a tour d'horizon of the key ways in which the theory and practice of modern diplomacy are evolving in the 21st Century.

Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the World

Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the World
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2022-03-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004505881

Ministries of foreign affairs are prominent institutions of state diplomacy. They remain the operators of key practices associated with diplomacy: communication, representation and negotiation. This book fills a gap by approaching ministries of foreign affairs in a comparative and comprehensive way.

Diplomatic Law

Diplomatic Law
Author: Eileen Denza
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2016
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198703961

The 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations has for over 50 years been central to diplomacy and applied to all forms of relations among sovereign States. Participation is almost universal. The rules giving special protection to ambassadors are the oldest established in international law and the Convention is respected almost everywhere. But understanding it as a living instrument requires knowledge of its background in customary international law, of the negotiating history which clarifies many of its terms and the subsequent practice of states and decisions of national courts which have resolved other ambiguities. Diplomatic Law provides this in-depth Commentary. The book is an essential guide to changing methods of modern diplomacy and shows how challenges to its regime of special protection for embassies and diplomats have been met and resolved. It is used by ministries of foreign affairs and cited by domestic courts world-wide. The book analyzes the reasons for the widespread observance of the Convention rules and why in the special case of communications - where there is flagrant violation of their special status - these reasons do not apply. It describes how abuse has been controlled and how the immunities in the Convention have survived onslaught by those claiming that they should give way to conflicting entitlements to access to justice and the desire to punish violators of human rights. It describes how the duty of diplomats not to interfere in the internal affairs of the host State is being narrowed in the face of the communal international responsibility to monitor and uphold human rights.

Career Diplomacy

Career Diplomacy
Author: Harry Kopp
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN: 162616469X

Ronald Neumann, former US ambassador and president of the American Academy of Diplomacy, called the second edition of Career Diplomacy a "must-read for those seeking understanding of today's foreign service." In this third edition Kopp and Naland, both of whom had distinguished careers in the field, provide an authoritative and candid account of the foreign service, exploring the five career tracks--consular, political, economic, management, and public diplomacy--through their own experience and through interviews with over one hundred current and former foreign service officials. The book includes significant revisions and updates from the previous edition, such as: Obama administration's use of the foreign service; a thorough discussion of the relationship of the foreign service and the Department of State to other agencies, and to the combatant commands; an expanded analysis of hiring procedures; commentary on challenging management issues in the Department of State, including the proliferation of political appointments, the rapid growth in the number of high-level positions, and the difficulties of running an agency with employees in two personnel systems (civil service and foreign service); and a fresh examination of the changing nature and demographics of the foreign service. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and list of websites and blogs on the subject.

Diplomatic Practice: Between Tradition And Innovation

Diplomatic Practice: Between Tradition And Innovation
Author: Juergen Kleiner
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2009-08-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9814468266

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the current international practice of diplomacy. Armed with over 30 years of experience in the German Foreign Service, the author explains the workings of the different actors on the diplomatic stage. The book provides a detailed coverage of various diplomatic agencies as well as the functions of diplomats and consuls, explaining the methods and protocols of the art of diplomacy. It will serve as a good reference source for students and scholars of diplomacy, diplomats in foreign ministries and diplomatic and consular missions.

Lessons from a Diplomatic Life

Lessons from a Diplomatic Life
Author: Marshall P. Adair
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2012-12-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442220813

In his new book, Lessons from a Diplomatic Life: Watching Flowers from Horseback, retired State Department official and career diplomat Marshall P. Adair recounts and reflects on his time in the US Foreign Service. The story of his assignments throughout the world reveals important details about significant foreign policy issues and historic events, including Bosnia, American policy toward Tibet, the 1988 Burmese uprising, and the foundations of the current US-China relationship. It provides the reader with an inside look at the history of the US State Department, US diplomacy, and US foreign policy of recent decades, during what was often an unstable and uncertain time. This first-hand, detailed account of the author’s work with foreign governments and populations provides a unique outlook on US relations around the world that has critical policy implications for the situations we face today. Through this retelling, Adair illuminates how the depth and accuracy needed of diplomats and Foreign Service agents requires a close and intimate understanding of the cultures and governments they work with.