Diplomacy with a difference : : the Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1880-2006 / / Lorna Lloyd.

• Superior document: Diplomatic studies ; v. 1
• Author: Lloyd, Lorna.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Diplomatic studies ; v. 1.
• Physical Description: xix, 353 p.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Beginnings, 1880-1914 -- Chapter Two. Consolidation, 1914-Late 1930's -- Chapter Three. Discontent, Late 1930's- mid-1940's -- Chapter Four. Equal Status, 1946-1948 -- Chapter Five. Substantive Equality, Late 1940's-early 1950's -- Chapter Six. Ambassadors plus,1 Early 1950's-mid-1960's -- Chapter Seven. Normalisation, Early 1960's-mid-1970's -- Chapter Eight. Survival, Mid-1970's-2006 -- Appendix One. Glossary -- Appendix Two. Commonwealth Members -- Appendix Three. The Growth of Intra-commonwealth Representation 1880-1957 1 -- Appendix Four. Relevant Articles from the Vienna Conventions -- Appendix Five. High Commission era Historical Note -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.