Author: Brian Barder
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442226366
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
What do diplomats actually do? That is what this text seeks to answer by describing the various stages of a typical diplomat’s career. The book follows a fictional diplomat from his application to join the national diplomatic service through different postings at home and overseas, culminating with his appointment as ambassador and retirement. Each chapter contains case studies, based on the author’s thirty year experience as a diplomat, Ambassador, and High Commissioner. These illustrate such key issues as the role of the diplomat during emergency crises or working as part of a national delegation to a permanent conference as the United Nations. Rigorously academic in its coverage yet extremely lively and engaging, this unique work will serve as a primer to any students and junior diplomats wishing to grasp what the practice of diplomacy is actually like.
What Diplomats Do
Author: Brian Barder
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442226366
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
What do diplomats actually do? That is what this text seeks to answer by describing the various stages of a typical diplomat’s career. The book follows a fictional diplomat from his application to join the national diplomatic service through different postings at home and overseas, culminating with his appointment as ambassador and retirement. Each chapter contains case studies, based on the author’s thirty year experience as a diplomat, Ambassador, and High Commissioner. These illustrate such key issues as the role of the diplomat during emergency crises or working as part of a national delegation to a permanent conference as the United Nations. Rigorously academic in its coverage yet extremely lively and engaging, this unique work will serve as a primer to any students and junior diplomats wishing to grasp what the practice of diplomacy is actually like.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442226366
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
What do diplomats actually do? That is what this text seeks to answer by describing the various stages of a typical diplomat’s career. The book follows a fictional diplomat from his application to join the national diplomatic service through different postings at home and overseas, culminating with his appointment as ambassador and retirement. Each chapter contains case studies, based on the author’s thirty year experience as a diplomat, Ambassador, and High Commissioner. These illustrate such key issues as the role of the diplomat during emergency crises or working as part of a national delegation to a permanent conference as the United Nations. Rigorously academic in its coverage yet extremely lively and engaging, this unique work will serve as a primer to any students and junior diplomats wishing to grasp what the practice of diplomacy is actually like.
Reminiscences of a Diplomatist's Wife
Author: Mrs. Hugh Fraser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomats' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomats' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Further Reminiscences of a Diplomatist's Wife
Author: Mrs. Hugh Fraser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomats' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomats' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Recollections of an Indonesian Diplomat in the Sukarno Era
Author: Ganis Harsono
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Ever the Diplomat
Author: Sherard Cowper-Coles
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007436019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"First published in Great Britain by Harper Press in 2012"--Colophon.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007436019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"First published in Great Britain by Harper Press in 2012"--Colophon.
Recollections of a Russian diplomat
Author: А.А. Savinsky
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5881600037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5881600037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Recollections of a Russian Diplomat
Author: Evgeniǐ Nīkolaevīch Shelḱīng
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Old Days in Diplomacy
Author: Charlotte Anne Albinia Disbrowe
Publisher: London, Jarrold & sons
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher: London, Jarrold & sons
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Caravans
Author: James A. Michener
Publisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 0812986334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
First published in 1963, James A. Michener’s gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military man tasked, in the years after World War II, with a dangerous assignment: finding and returning a young American woman living in Afghanistan to her distraught family after she suddenly and mysteriously disappears. A timeless tale of love and emotional drama set against the backdrop of one of the most important countries in the world today, Caravans captures the tension of the postwar period, the sweep of Afghanistan’s remarkable history, and the inescapable allure of the past. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Caravans “Brilliant . . . an extraordinary novel . . . The old nomadic trails across the mountains spring into existence.”—The New York Times “Romantic and adventurous . . . [Michener] has a wonderful empathy for the wild and free and an understanding of the reasons behind the kind of cruelty that goes with it.”—Newsday “Michener has done for Afghanistan what . . . his first [book] did for the South Pacific.”—The New York Herald Tribune
Publisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 0812986334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
First published in 1963, James A. Michener’s gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military man tasked, in the years after World War II, with a dangerous assignment: finding and returning a young American woman living in Afghanistan to her distraught family after she suddenly and mysteriously disappears. A timeless tale of love and emotional drama set against the backdrop of one of the most important countries in the world today, Caravans captures the tension of the postwar period, the sweep of Afghanistan’s remarkable history, and the inescapable allure of the past. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Caravans “Brilliant . . . an extraordinary novel . . . The old nomadic trails across the mountains spring into existence.”—The New York Times “Romantic and adventurous . . . [Michener] has a wonderful empathy for the wild and free and an understanding of the reasons behind the kind of cruelty that goes with it.”—Newsday “Michener has done for Afghanistan what . . . his first [book] did for the South Pacific.”—The New York Herald Tribune
Recollections of a Romanian Diplomat, 1918-1969: Diaries and Memoirs of Raoul V. Bossy
Author:
Publisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 9780817929534
Category : Diplomats
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 9780817929534
Category : Diplomats
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description