Embassies in Crisis: Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations

Embassies in Crisis: Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations
ISBN-10
1351123491
ISBN-13
9781351123495
Category
History
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2020-10-29
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Martin Thomas, Rogelia Pastor-Castro

Description

Embassies are integral to international diplomacy, their staff instrumental to inter-governmental dialogue, strategic partnerships, trading relationships and cultural exchange. But Embassies are also discreet political spaces. Notionally sovereign territory ‘immune’ from local jurisdiction, 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 and Embassies in Crisis revisits flashpoints in the recent lives of Embassies overseas at times of acute political crisis. Ranging across multiple British and other embassy crises, unusually, this book offers equal insights to international historians and members of the diplomatic community.

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