Embassies in Crisis: Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations

ISBN-13: 9780815357889 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 256 str.

Rogelia Pastor-Castro; Martin Thomas

Opis

In moments of crisis Embassies have often been targets of protest and sites of confrontation. It is this aspect of Embassy experience that this collection of essays explores.

 

Spis treści

Introduction: Embassies in Crisis: Diplomacy, Communities, and Conflicts;  1. The British Embassy in Paris and the Fall of France;  2. ‘Ambassador Brawls with Minister’: Emotions and Internal and External Crisis at the French Embassy to the Holy See;  3. Keeping the Flag Flying: John Reeves and the British Consulate in Macao, 1941-45;  4. Austrian Diplomatic Missions in Crisis: From 1938 to the Cold War;  5. The Mindszenty Affair and the United States Embassy in Budapest;  6. British High Commissioners in India and Pakistan and the Kashmir Conflict, 1947-49;  7. Crisis at the Creation: the Establishment of the First US Embassy in Israel, 1947-1949;  8. The U.S. Embassy in Saigon and the Dien Bien Phu Crisis, 1954;  9. Hook, Line and Sinker: The British Embassy in Cairo and Egypt’s "Expulsion of Soviet Advisers," 1972;  10. Eyes Off the Prize? The British Embassy in Tehran, 1976-79;  11. Crisis response in a 21^st century British Embassy: Ukraine 2013/14;  12. Embassies Responding to Crisis: A Practitioner’s Perspective