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