Harry Parkes was at the heart of Britain's relations with the Far East from the start of his working life at fourteen, to his death at fifty-seven. Orphaned at the age of five, he went to China on ...his own as a child and worked his way to the top. God-fearing and fearless, he believed his mission was to bring trade and 'civilisation' to East Asia. In his day, he was seen as both a hero and a monster and is still bitterly resented in China for his part in the country's humiliations at Western hands, but largely esteemed in Japan for helping it to industrialise. Morton's new biography, the first in over thirty years, and benefiting in part from access to the Parkes' family and archives, offers a more intimate and informed profile of the personal and professional life of a Victorian titan and one of Britain's most undiplomatic diplomats in the history of the British Civil Service.
Neuvostoliiton Helsingin suurlähetystössä diplomaattina ja kauppa-attaseana 1920–30-lukujen vaihteessa toiminut armenialaistaustainen Suren Erzinkjan on korkea-arvoisin koskaan Suomeen loikannut ...neuvostovirkailija. Tutkimuksessaan Neuvostodiplomaatin loikkaus Helsingissä 1930 (2007) Kimmo Rentola taustoittaa ja raportoi loikkarin tarinan, joka oli jäänyt tutkijoilta katveeseen, ja tuli nyt ensi kertaa laajempaan tietoisuuteen. Rentola (2007, 45) mainitsee myös töölöläisen leskirouvan, joka kohtasi loikkarin, muttei käsittele kohtaamista laajemmin.
Bernadotte, Folke (1895–1948) Overlack, Peter
Middle East Conflicts from Ancient Egypt to the 21st Century : An Encyclopedia and Document Collection: A-F,
2019
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"It used to be," soon-to-be secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright said in 1996, "that the only way a woman could truly make her foreign policy views felt was by marrying a diplomat and then ...pouring tea on an offending ambassador's lap."
This world of US diplomacy excluded women for a variety of misguided reasons: they would let their emotions interfere with the task of diplomacy, they were not up to the deadly risks that could arise overseas, and they would be unable to cultivate the social contacts vital to success in the field. The men of the State Department objected but had to admit women, including the first female ambassadors: Ruth Bryan Owen, Florence "Daisy" Harriman, Perle Mesta, Eugenie Anderson, Clare Boothe Luce, and Frances Willis. These were among the most influential women in US foreign relations in their era.
Using newly available archival sources, Philip Nash examines the history of the "Big Six" and how they carved out their rightful place in history. After a chapter capturing the male world of American diplomacy in the early twentieth century, the book devotes one chapter to each of the female ambassadors and delves into a number of topics, including their backgrounds and appointments, the issues they faced while on the job, how they were received by host countries, the complications of protocol, and the press coverage they received, which was paradoxically favorable yet deeply sexist. In an epilogue that also provides an overview of the role of women in modern US diplomacy, Nash reveals how these trailblazers helped pave the way for more gender parity in US foreign relations.
Lord Lyons Jenkins, Brian
Lord Lyons,
2014., 20140901, 2014, 2014-08-30, 2014-09-01
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The British ambassador in Washington during the US Civil War and ambassador in Paris before and after the Franco-Prussian war, Lord Lyons (1817-1887) was one of the most important diplomats of the ...Victorian period. Although frequently featured in histories of the United States and Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century, and in discussions and analyses of British foreign policy, he has remained an ill-defined figure. In Lord Lyons: A Diplomat in an Age of Nationalism and War, Brian Jenkins explains the man and examines his career. Based on a staggering study of primary sources, he presents a convincing portrait of a subject who rarely revealed himself personally. Though he avoided publicity, Lyons came to be regarded as his nation's premier diplomat as his career took him to the heart of the great international issues and crises of his generation. As minister to the United States he played a vital role in preserving Anglo-American peace and was a powerful voice opposing Anglo-French intervention in the Civil War. While ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, he helped to prevent French control of the Suez Canal then under construction. In France, he maintained an amiable and constructive relationship with a bitter nation struggling to reorganize itself and its constitution after the Franco-Prussian War. For many historians Lord Lyons has been difficult to ignore but hard to admire. In rescuing him as a truly important historical figure, Jenkins details for the first time the personal and public strategies Lyons employed through decades of exemplary diplomatic service on both sides of the Atlantic.
Judith M. Heimann entered the diplomatic life in 1958 to join
her husband, John, in Jakarta, Indonesia, at his American Embassy
post. This, her first time out of the United States, would set her
on a ...path across the continents as she mastered the fine points of
diplomatic culture. She did so first as a spouse, then as a
diplomat herself, thus becoming part of one of the Foreign
Service's first tandem couples.
Heimann's lively recollections of her life in Africa, Asia, and
Europe show us that when it comes to reconciling our government's
requirements with the other government's wants, shuttle diplomacy,
Skype, and email cannot match on-the-ground interaction. The
ability to gauge and finesse gesture, tone of voice, and unspoken
assumptions became her stock-in-trade as she navigated, time and
again, remarkably delicate situations.
This insightful and witty memoir gives us a behind-the-scenes
look at a rarely explored experience: that of one of the very first
married female diplomats, who played an unsung but significant role
in some of the important international events of the past fifty
years. To those who know something of today's world of diplomacy,
Paying Calls in Shangri-La will be an enlightening tour
through the way it used to be-and for aspiring Foreign Service
officers and students, it will be an inspiration.
Published in association with ADST-DACOR Diplomats and
Diplomacy Series
