Although the romantic partners of diplomatic personnel frequently accompany their spouses to overseas postings and face the challenges of having to adjust to new cultures and separation from friends ...and family, they have rarely been the focus of academic research. This study explores the lived experiences of the partners/spouses of diplomatic personnel from the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Partners of FCDO staff took part in semi-structured interviews about how COVID-19 had affected their lives and their perceptions of the organisation's response to the pandemic. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Eleven partners of FCDO staff took part, who between them had lived in 14 different countries during the pandemic. The analysis identified six key themes: deployment-specific challenges such as travel restrictions, quarantine and evacuation; children; impacts of the pandemic including financial and psychological; perceptions of the organisational response to COVID-19; support and help-seeking; and suggestions for the future. Overall participants reported experiencing a number of challenges, many of which left them feeling powerless and not in control of their own lives. Participants frequently described a lack of clarity around policies and support. Social support appeared to be valuable, but many participants wanted more support from the organisation and from informal networks. Diplomatic (and similar) organisations could enhance the wellbeing of the partners of their staff through improved communication and support. Keeping families informed about restrictions, requirements, policies and available help during a crisis, and reaching out to them to offer advice and support, would likely be beneficial. It is important that lessons are learned from the COVID-19 crisis in order for organisations to be able to support their employees and families if another prolonged crisis were to occur.
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The structural changes championed by the Spanish government in 1957 heralded a period of transformation that did not leave the Italian authorities indifferent. The beginning of a new stage of ...technical reforms in the economic and administrative fields drew the attention of Italian diplomats, also due to the political consequences of the reforms in relation to other Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC). The purpose of this paper is to analyze Rome's policy in relation to Spain's changing trajectory, including the contribution of some Italian intellectuals to the final phase of institutionalization of the Franco regime.
This volume comprises some fifty essays on different themes and personalities, grouped thematically: portraits of key figures such as Stamford Raffles and Lord Lytton; history of Japanese trade and ...investment in the UK, such as NSK and Mitsubishi Electric; scholars such as Basil Hall Chamberlain; international Japanese banker Ogata Shijuro.
In the early days of the Palestinian national movement, the representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) were primarily close members of the Palestinian leadership, particularly ...Fatah and Yasser Arafat. But the development of a regulated diplomatic profession and the massive integration of civil servants into the new diplomatic administration in the Occupied Palestinian Territories after the Oslo agreements of 1993 are fostering the emergence of a new generation of diplomats. These new members, who are supposed to represent the face of Palestinian diplomacy's professionalism, must deal with sustainable clientelist practices and use their own capital to legitimize their positions within this space.
This book provides a practice-based analysis of European Union (EU) diplomacy and community-building.
Unlike studies focusing on how EU community-building proceeds centrally in Brussels, this book ...turns to EU diplomacy in its bordering state of Ukraine. At a time when the EU's internal cohesion is being put to the test, this book provides novel insights into how feelings of belonging are produced amongst its members in the absence of a homogenous 'we'. Transcending the traditional dichotomy between macro-structures and micro-processes of interaction, the book demonstrates that the EU's large-scale community depends for its existence on practical instantiations of community-building in distinct 'communities of practice'. Using the case of an EU diplomatic 'community of practice' in Kyiv, Ukraine takes these questions to the EU's margins, highlighting that the boundaries of community are key sites in which community materialises. The in-depth case study identifies diplomats' 'boundary work' as the constitutive rule that makes the local 'community of practice' cohere and create feelings of belonging to the large-scale polity of the EU.
This book will be of interest to researchers of European studies, as well as to those working on global cooperation and international relations more broadly.
While politics is always a hot topic at Pakistani gatherings, discussions about mangos and sumptuous barbeque were preeminent at the Mango Festival hosted by Pakistan's Embassy in Washington, DC on ...July 20, 2023. Addressing guests, which included Pakistani-Americans, journalists, scholars, diplomats and US lawmakers, Ambassador Masood Khan emphasized the special 75-year relationship between the US and Pakistan. He described education, security, trade, investment and climate-related issues as strengths of the bilateral relationship. Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said, "Through trade and economic investments in Pakistan, the two countries have become closer partners and brought peace to our nations."
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