List of representatives of the united nations and its specialized agencies
A collection of diplomatic and consular addresses and names from various countries
Built on declared principles of partnership and respect for sovereignty, and successful in gaining legitimacy in the international community, the new model seems to offer a legitimate way to engage in state-building intervention. The book mounts a critique of these claims, showing how international legitimacy does not automatically translate into political legitimacy among those in the affected…
"En el desarrollo de la labor investigativa en el Public Record Office, de Kew. Londres, actividad que iniciara a fines de 1988, con el patrocinio de la Fundación y la orientación del profesor Malcolm Deas, Efraín Sánchez revisó los fondos documentales correspondientes a los despachos de los agentes diplomáticos de Inglaterra, acreditados ante el gobierno de Colombia y de la Nueva Granada…
This book provides a fascinating set of insights into Singaporean diplomacy and demonstates how the excellence of Singapore's foreign service has enabled the country to punch far above its weight in international affairs. A must read for anyone interested in the exercise of foreign policy.
A few days from now, a Conference of Foreign Ministers will be held in Manila to discuss the possibilities of a Treaty Organization for Southeasta Asia and the Southwest Pacific. The countries represented in this Conference are: Pakistan, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, France, Great Britain, the United States and the Philippines. What has brought these Govenments together in this Conference …
The international community faces no more critical issue than how to protect people caught in new and large-scale humanitarian crises - humanitarian intervention has been controversial both when it has happened, as in Kosovo, and when it has failed to happen, as in Rwanda. While there is general agreement internationally that we should not stand by in the face of massive violations of human rig…
Assassinations, abductions, racketeering, black markets, corruption, religious persecution, mass executions, and war have been the daily lot of the Iranian people since they overthrew the Shah. But according to this former Iranian leader - forced to flee because he opposed the despotism of the mullahs the revolution's original goal really was a democratic system in which "Islam would only play …
When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiotor in late 1995, he book a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the height of the war, that Holbrooke's mission would succeed. The odds were strongly against it.
In this collection of statements, interviews and personal profiles of Dr. Chien, much of it translated from the original Chinese, the reader will have a comprehensive view of the R.O.C.'s latest diplomatic moves and a portent of its future international role. So, too, this work presents authentic insights into the character and persona of Fredrick Chien, the person as well as the statesman of v…