Questa serie approfondisce la natura poliedrica della diplomazia e il suo ruolo fondamentale negli affari globali. Esamina le dimensioni storiche, concettuali e pratiche, offrendo una comprensione completa di questo campo vitale. Essenziale per studenti e studiosi di Studi Internazionali, Storia Internazionale e Studi Diplomatici, illumina la teoria e la pratica delle relazioni internazionali. La collana fornisce spunti critici su come la diplomacia modella il suo ambiente in continua evoluzione e ne viene modellata.
During wartime, embassies assume different roles and face various situations. An embassy might represent a belligerent state while being situated in an enemy, an allied, or a neutral state. This book offers an examination of how embassies work and cope during wartime, with a focus on the experiences of the British, American, and Indian embassies.
The book reinterprets the role of the United Nations during the Congo crisis from 1960-1964 by presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation. -- .
Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of burgeoning scholarly interest. On the one hand, scholars are investigating the many ways in which the 1970s constituted a profound era of transition in the international order. The American defeat in Vietnam, the breakdown of the Bretton Woods exchange system and a string of domestic setbacks including Watergate, Three-Mile Island and reversals during the Carter years all contributed to a grand reappraisal of the power and prestige of the United States in the world. In addition, the rise of new global competitors such as Germany and Japan, the pursuit of détente with the Soviet Union and the emergence of new private sources of global power contributed to uncertainty.