Diplomacy with a Difference: The Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1880 - 2006

Lorna Lloyd

Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007 - Political Science - 353 pages

This book illuminates two familiar phenomena diplomacy and the Commonwealth from a new and unfamiliar angle: the atypical way in which the Commonwealth s members came to, and continue to, engage in official relations with each other. This innovative and wide-ranging study is based on archival material from four states, interviews and correspondence with diplomats, and a wide range of secondary sources. It shows how members of an empire found it necessary to engage in diplomacy and, in so doing, created a singular, and often remarkably intimate, diplomatic system. The result is a fascinating, multidisciplinary exploration of the evolving Commonwealth and the way in which its 53 members and Ireland conduct diplomacy with one another, and in so doing have contributed a distinctive terminology to the diplomatic lexicon.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Chapter One Beginnings 18801914: 13
• Chapter Two Consolidation 1914late 1930s: 25
• Chapter Three Discontent late 1930smid1940s: 63
• Chapter Four Equal Status 19461948: 97
• Chapter Five Substantive Equality late 1940searly 1950s: 127
• Chapter Six Ambassadors plus early 1950smid1960s: 169
• Chapter Seven Normalisation early 1960smid1970s: 207
• Chapter Eight Survival mid1970s2006: 267
• Appendix One Glossary: 291
• Appendix Two Commonwealth Members: 297
• Appendix Three The Growth of IntraCommonwealth Representation 18801957: 301
• Appendix Four Relevant Articles from the Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic Relations 1961 and on Consular Relations 1963: 305
• Appendix Five High CommissionerA Historical Note: 317
• Bibliography: 321
• Index of Names: 333
• Index of Subjects: 345

About the author

David Armstrong is Professor of International Relations, University of Exeter.
Lorna Lloyd is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Keele.
John Redmond is Professor of European Studies, University of Birmingham.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Diplomacy with a Difference: The Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1880 - 2006; Volume 1 of Diplomatic studies, ISSN 1872-8863
• Author: Lorna Lloyd
• Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007
• ISBN: 9004154973, 9789004154971
• Length: 353 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / International Relations / General