1st Edition
Embassies in Crisis Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations
Introduction: Embassies in Crisis: Diplomacy, Communities, and Conflicts
Martin Thomas
1. The British Embassy in Paris and the Fall of France
Rogelia Pastor Castro
2. ‘Ambassador Brawls with Minister’: Emotions and Internal and External Crisis at the French Embassy to the Holy See
Karine Varley
3. Keeping the Flag Flying: John Reeves and the British Consulate in Macao, 1941-45
Richard Smith
4. Austrian Diplomatic Missions in Crisis: From 1938 to the Cold War
David Schriffl
5. The Mindszenty Affair and the United States Embassy in Budapest
Mary Heimann
6. British High Commissioners in India and Pakistan and the Kashmir Conflict, 1947-49
Rakesh Ankit
7. Crisis at the Creation: the Establishment of the First US Embassy in Israel, 1947-1949
Lorena De Vita
8. The U.S. Embassy in Saigon and the Dien Bien Phu Crisis, 1954
Alex Ferguson
9. Hook, Line and Sinker: The British Embassy in Cairo and Egypt’s "Expulsion of Soviet Advisers," 1972
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
10. Eyes Off the Prize? The British Embassy in Tehran, 1976-79
Alistair Noble
11. Crisis response in a 21st century British Embassy: Ukraine 2013/14
Simon Smith
12. Embassies Responding to Crisis: A Practitioner’s Perspective
Jane Marriott
Biography
Rogelia Pastor-Castro is a Lecturer in International History at the University of Strathclyde. Her research interests focus on Franco-British relations, and European security and integration. She has published on post-war European defence, and British and French diplomacy, and has co-edited The Paris Embassy: British Ambassadors and Anglo-French Relations, 1944-1979 (2013) with John W. Young. Currently, she is working on a three-year AHRC funded project on The Weight of the Past in Franco-British Relations.
Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History and Director of the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict at the University of Exeter. A specialist in the politics of contested decolonization, his most recent publications are Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940 (2012), Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire (2014), and, with co-author Richard Toye, Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France (2017).
