Diplomacy

The emergence of a 'new' democratic South Africa under Nelson Mandela was regarded as a high watermark for international ideals of human rights and democracy.

China sees its relations with the West as absolutely crucial to its future.

Why do politicians send troops to foreign soil, to fight battles they rarely win?

Sheikh Mubarak was the founder of the modern state of Kuwait.

Johann Georg von Hahn - a nineteenth-century Austrian diplomat and explorer - is generally considered to be the founder of Albanian Studies as a scholarly discipline.

The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis.

Winston Churchill was the greatest statesman of the twentieth century, yet he began his career as a colonial policeman in the North-West borderlands of India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world.

Over a long and varied career, Major-General William Beatson earned a fine reputation as a leader of irregular cavalry in the nineteenth century.

International Arms Trade has always been a powerful and multi-functional constituent of world politics and international diplomacy.

Rumour and speculation in Iran have been rife for generations that the BBC has had a hand in every political upheaval in the country.

South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent.

In 1814 the five reigning dynasties of Europe, Alexander I of Russia and ministers such Metternich and Talleyrand, descended upon Vienna.

Amongst the riches of nineteenth century India, as the British fought their way across Mughal territory, an orphaned streetgirl ends up at court with the ear of the Emperor.

Elaborate and sensational gifts were the hallmark of Mamluk diplomacy.

Sent to the Middle East by Woodrow Wilson to ascertain the viability of self-determination in the disintegrating Ottoman Empire, the King-Crane Commission of 1919 was America's first foray into the region.

Nicholas Barrington began his dramatic diplomatic career with a post in Afghanistan at a time the country was barely known to the world's headline writers.

The respective policies of the governments of Iran and Pakistan pose serious challenges to US interests in the Middle East, Asia and beyond.

In the age of the Great Powers, with Russia and France at war, and the Ottoman Empire at the height of its influence and majesty, the British diplomat Stratford Canning arrived in Constantinople.

China has become the powerhouse of the world economy and home to 1 in 5 of the world's population, yet we know almost nothing of the people who lead it.

British post-imperial decline has been much examined.

Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the close alliance between Syria and Iran has endured for over three decades, based on geopolitical interests between the two states and often framed in the language of resistance.

China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party.

The US in the 1950s and 1960s wanted to prevent a new communist regime in the Western hemisphere at any cost.

Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the 18th-century European stage, holding high office as a diplomat in London, Turin and Paris, and as viceroy and prime minister in the Two Sicilies.

Tsar and Sultan offers a unique insight into Russian Orientalism as the intellectual force behind Russian-Ottoman encounters.

As the ice around the Arctic landmass recedes progressively further each year, the territory has become a flashpoint in world affairs.

Created after World War I, 'Yugoslavia' was a combination of ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse but connected South Slav peoples - Slovenes, Croats and Serbs but also Bosnian Muslims, Macedonians, and Montenegrins - in addition to non-Slav minorities.

The Kosovo question posed a great challenge to the international order in the western Balkans for a number of decades prior to the outbreak of war in the 1990s.

The history of the Balkans incorporates all the major historical themes of the 20th Century--the rise of nationalism, communism and fascism, state-sponsored genocide and urban warfare.

Iranian ambitions in the Persian Gulf and rivalries with Arab neighbours are subject to intense - and heated - speculation, controversy and debate.

Beginning on the eve of oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, The Ottomans and the Mamluks traces the growth of the Ottoman Empire from a tiny Anatolian principality to a world power, and the relative decline of the Mamluks-historic defenders of Mecca and Medina and the rulers of Egypt and Syria.

The US in the 1950s and 1960s wanted to prevent a new communist regime in the Western hemisphere at any cost.

In the time of the 'Great Powers', Stratford Canning served as British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during several long missions throughout the first half of the nineteenth century.

South Africa is a major player in African diplomacy.

Elaborate and sensational gifts were the hallmark of Mamluk diplomacy.

Two centuries ago, Europe emerged from one of the greatest crises in its history.

At the height of her imperial power Britain clashed with Russia at many points from Turkey to China.

Great Britain's decision to withdraw its forces from the Gulf was a turning point in the modern history of the Middle East.

"e;Of Cargoes, Colonies and Kings"e; gives an offbeat account of Andrew Stuart's wide-ranging experiences.

George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, was an unconventional ambassador.

The recent release of archives relating to the Cyprus War of 1974 shed completely fresh light on the lead-up to the Turkish landing on the island and its aftermath.

Britain's reputation in the Middle East had been reduced to shreds by the fiasco of the Suez War in 1956 but by 1967 - as a result of quiet diplomacy and long-standing contact with the region - recovery seemed possible.

There is much discussion these days about public diplomacy communicating directly with the people of other countries rather than through their diplomats but little information about what it actually entails.

A behind-the-scenes account of American foreign policymaking in the late twentieth centuryTom Hughes, assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, made an ominous prediction in 1965.

At the moment, the revision of security policy and the formation of a new consensus to support it are still at an early stage of development.

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The aspirations of democracy and the requirements of diplomacy have always coexisted uneasily.

Though many historians date the practice of diplomacy to the Renaissance, Pierre Chaplais shows that medieval kings relied on a network of diplomats and special envoys to conduct international relations.

The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century-the white "e;banana cowboy"e; pushing the edges of a tropical frontier-was the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by the United Fruit Company.