Diplomatic Baggage

Author : Brigid Keenan
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848546103

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Diplomatic Baggage by Brigid Keenan Pdf

When Sunday Times fashion journalist Brigid Keenan married the love of her life in the late Sixties, little idea did she have of the rollercoaster journey they would make around the world together - with most things going horribly awry while being obliged to keep the straightest face and put their best feet forward. For he was a diplomat - and Brigid found herself the smiling face of the European Union in locales ranging from Kazakhstan to Trinidad. Finding herself miserable for the first time in a career into which many would have long ago thrown the towel, she found herself asking (during a farewell party for the Papal Nuncio): was it worth it? As this stream of it-really-happened-to-me stories shows, it most certainly was - if only for our vicarious bewilderment at how exactly you throw a buffet dinner during a public mourning period in Syria, remain viable as a fashion journalist when taste-wise you are three seasons out of it and geographically a world away, make people believe that there are actually terrible things going on in paradise, be a good mother and save some of the finest architecture in Damascus and Brussels from demolition - seemingly all simultaneously.

Author : Brigid Keenan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526654908

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Diplomatic Baggage by Brigid Keenan Pdf

The beloved Sunday Times bestseller - a touching, hilarious, often outrageous memoir of home-making and family adventures in the world's furthest outposts 'Hilarious, and utterly beguiling - it's a complete treat to be in Keenan's witty and open-hearted company' Esther Freud 'Deliciously effervescent' Sunday Times 'Brigid writes like a dream ... fabulous' Joanna Lumley 'Irresistible' Mail on Sunday When Sunday Times fashion journalist Brigid Keenan married the love of her life in the late Sixties, she had little idea of the rollercoaster journey they would make around the world together. For he was a diplomat - and Brigid found herself the smiling face of the European Union in locales ranging from Kazakhstan to Trinidad, and asking herself questions she never thought she'd have to ask. How do you throw a buffet dinner during a public mourning period in Syria? Where do you track down dog fat in Almaty? And how do you entertain guests in a Nepalese chicken shed? Negotiating diplomatic protocol, difficult teenagers, homesickness, frustrated career aspirations, witch doctors, and giant jumping spiders, Brigid muddles determinedly through - with no shortage of mishaps on the way. 'There are not many books that have actually made me cry from laughing, but this is one of them' Sunday Times

Author : Paul Behrens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192515674

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Diplomatic Law in a New Millennium by Paul Behrens Pdf

The granting of diplomatic asylum to Julian Assange, the dangers faced by diplomats in troublespots around the world, WikiLeaks and the publication of thousands of embassy cable - situations like these place diplomatic agents and diplomatic law at the very centre of contemporary debate on current affairs. Diplomatic Law in a New Millennium brings together 20 experts to provide insight into some of the most controversial and important matters which characterise modern diplomatic law. They include diplomatic asylum, the treatment (and rights) of domestic staff of diplomatic agents, the inviolability of correspondence, of the diplomatic bag and of the diplomatic mission, the immunity to be given to members of the diplomatic family, diplomatic duties (including the duty of non-interference), but also the rise of diplomatic actors which are not sent by States (including members of the EU diplomatic service). This book explores these matters in a critical, yet accessible manner, and is therefore an invaluable resource for practitioners, scholars and students with an interest in diplomatic relations. The authors of the book include some of the leading authorities on diplomatic law (including a delegate to the 1961 conference which codified modern diplomatic law) as well as serving and former members of the diplomatic corps.

Author : Eileen Denza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191009136

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Diplomatic Law by Eileen Denza Pdf

The 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations has for over 50 years been central to diplomacy and applied to all forms of relations among sovereign States. Participation is almost universal. The rules giving special protection to ambassadors are the oldest established in international law and the Convention is respected almost everywhere. But understanding it as a living instrument requires knowledge of its background in customary international law, of the negotiating history which clarifies many of its terms and the subsequent practice of states and decisions of national courts which have resolved other ambiguities. Diplomatic Law provides this in-depth Commentary. The book is an essential guide to changing methods of modern diplomacy and shows how challenges to its regime of special protection for embassies and diplomats have been met and resolved. It is used by ministries of foreign affairs and cited by domestic courts world-wide. The book analyzes the reasons for the widespread observance of the Convention rules and why in the special case of communications - where there is flagrant violation of their special status - these reasons do not apply. It describes how abuse has been controlled and how the immunities in the Convention have survived onslaught by those claiming that they should give way to conflicting entitlements to access to justice and the desire to punish violators of human rights. It describes how the duty of diplomats not to interfere in the internal affairs of the host State is being narrowed in the face of the communal international responsibility to monitor and uphold human rights.

Author : Simon Cann
Publisher : Coombe Hill Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781910398159

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Diplomatic Baggage by Simon Cann Pdf

Leathan Wilkey thinks he has been framed for murder by the victim's father. "He's the son of a friend--I'm doing a favor," says the diplomat, who gives Leathan the teenager's name and a photo and tells him where the kid usually hangs out. Leathan finds the teenager within the day. When he reaches him, the kid has just been shot. His dying words to Leathan are: "Protect Marianne." Leathan is left to find Marianne, find out why she needs protecting and from whom, all the while puzzling at what the diplomat didn't tell him. "He's the son of a friend--I'm doing a favor," says the diplomat, who gives Leathan the teenager's name and a photo and tells him where the kid usually hangs out.

Author : Matthew Parris
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780241957097

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The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase by Matthew Parris Pdf

The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase is a hilarious new collection of diplomatic tales by Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson Heard the one about the Spanish Ambassador who arrived in the scorching Saharan desert fully suited and with a mysteriously enormous suitcase? Or the horse they gave Prime Minister John Major in Turkmenistan - which hapless embassy officials had to rescue from the clutches of the Moscow railway? These and other 'funnies', as they are known in Whitehall, are included in Matthew Parris' and and Adnrew Bryson's glorious new volume of not so diplomatic writing, which accompanies a new BBC Radio 4 series is a follow up to their acclaimed collection of ambassadors' final despatches, Parting Shots. Drawn from Freedom of Information requests and previously overlooked Valedictories these startling despatches throw a revealing light on how the British have viewed the world - and, unwittingly perhaps, on how the world has viewed the British. Praise for Parting Shots: 'Parting Shots is unbuttoned, indiscreet and very funny' Yorkshire Post 'Fascinating, if sometimes uncomfortable, reading' Financial Times 'Very funny' Guardian After working in the Foreign Office then serving as a Conservative MP, Matthew Parris joined The Times in 1988. He writes two weekly columns for The Times and one for the Spectator, and in 2011 won the Best Columnist Award at the British Press awards. His acclaimed autobiography Chance Witness was published by Penguin in 2003. He is a frequent broadcaster. Andrew Bryson is a radio journalist working in the BBC's Business and Economic Unit. He frequently works as a producer on Radio 4's Today programme and on Radio 5 Live.

Author : John Ure
Publisher : John Murray Pubs Limited
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0719557402

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Diplomatic Bag by John Ure Pdf

Author : Aurelius Graf von Staufen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783756254569

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The Diplomat by Aurelius Graf von Staufen Pdf

Author : Eileen Denza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198703969

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Diplomatic Law by Eileen Denza Pdf

This work is a commentary on the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the universally-accepted framework for diplomacy between sovereign states. The author places each provision of the Convention in its historical context.--

Author : Ivor Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198821953

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Satow's Diplomatic Practice by Ivor Roberts Pdf

An indispensable guide for anyone working in or studying the field of diplomacy, this seventh, centenary edition of Satow's Diplomatic Practice provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of all areas of diplomacy and diplomatic practice.

Author : United Nations International Law Commission
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1982-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789213623367

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Yearbook of the International Law Commission 1982, Vol II, Part 1 by United Nations International Law Commission Pdf

The Yearbook of the International Law Commission Volume II, contains summary records of the International Law Commission sessions on such subjects as: arbitral procedures, diplomatic immunities, Law of the Sea, nationality, Law of Treaties and Rights and Duties of States.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045325235

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Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations by United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on the Vienna Convention
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Arbitration (International law)
ISBN : LOC:0018679669A

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Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on the Vienna Convention Pdf

Discusses international convention defining rights and duties of diplomatic personnel and accompanying optional protocol on compulsory settlement of disputes.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Diplomatic and consular service
ISBN : PURD:32754074743620

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Diplomatic Immunity Legislation by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Ernest Mason Satow
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199559275

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Satow's Diplomatic Practice by Ernest Mason Satow Pdf

The new edition of this classic work revises and examines the diplomatic practice of the last thirty years. It provides a comprehensive analysis of all areas of diplomacy, including its history, diplomatic immunities, and features new sections on international organisations and terrorism, making it an indispensable guide for anyone in the field.