Pays tribute to the late retired diplomat who helped develop the diplomatic service in New Zealand, and became the foundation director of the New Zealand Centre for Japanese Studies in 1987. Cites ...comment from colleague Brian Lynch about his stellar career in Asia. Notes his contributions to academia and to the New Zealand Institute for International Affairs. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
A scientific commission was formed in 2001 by the Puerto Rican government to identify the remains of Ramon Power y Giralt, the country's first diplomat and member of the 1812 Spanish Court of Cadiz. ...In 1813, after signing the Spanish Constitution claiming independence from Napoleon Bonaparte, Power died and was buried in Spain. Nearly 200 years later, the commission sought to repatriate Power to Puerto Rico. Multiple lines of evidence were employed to identify his skeleton, including osteological profiles matched with available historical information, stable isotope analyses, and mtDNA compared with samples from the Power family vault in Puerto Rico. Key words: Ramón Power, forensic anthropology, mtDNA, Court of Cadiz, stable isotopes, repatriation
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With this pioneering approach to the study of international history, T. G. Otte reconstructs the underlying principles, élite perceptions and 'unspoken assumptions' that shaped British foreign policy ...between the death of Palmerston and the outbreak of the First World War. Grounded in a wide range of public and private archival sources, and drawing on sociological insights, The Foreign Office Mind presents a comprehensive analysis of the foreign service as a 'knowledge-based organization', rooted in the social and educational background of the diplomatic élite and the broader political, social and cultural fabric of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. The book charts how the collective mindset of successive generations of professional diplomats evolved, and reacted to and shaped changes in international relations during the second half of the nineteenth century, including the balance of power and arms races, the origins of appeasement and the causes of the First World War.
There is much discussion these days about public diplomacy—communicating directly with the people of other countries rather than through their diplomats—but little information about what it actually ...entails. This book does exactly that by detailing the doings of a US Foreign Service cultural officer in five hot spots of the Cold War - Germany, Laos, Poland, Austria, and the Soviet Union - as well as service in Washington DC with the State Department, the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress, and the National Endowment for Democracy. Part history, part memoir, it takes readers into the trenches of the Cold War and demonstrates what public diplomacy can do. It also provides examples of what could be done today in countries where anti-Americanism runs high.
