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Journal articles on the topic "Diplomats, biography"
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Chernov, Oleg. "Specifics and Factors of the Formation and Career of a Diplomat in the Context of the Biography of N. V. Charykov." ISTORIYA 14, no. 9 (131) (2023): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840028141-4.
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The study of the features and factors of the formation and career of a diplomat became the subject of research in this article. The biography of N. V. Charykov has become a central link, since it includes both many typical features and a number of features. On the basis of a complex of memoir, epistolary and business documents, the factors of origin, upbringing and education, that is, the formation of a diplomat, as well as the dynamics of the career line and the results of activities, were studied. In the study of factors, prosopographic and comparative approaches were used, which made it possible to identify typical and special in the careers of N. V. Charykov and other diplomats.
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Suchcitz, Andrzej. "Archiwa Instytutu Polskiego i Muzeum im. gen. Sikorskiego jako źródło do opracowania monografii i biografii." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 48, no. 3 (November 1, 2020): 55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.518.
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The Archives of the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London are a veritable gold mine of primary sources for persons wishing to write the biographies of Polish politicians, soldiers, diplomats, writers, painters of the twentieth century. The same is true of monographs about formations and units of the Polish Armed forces and the battles of the Second World War. Moreover, the sources available can enrich the biographies of British and other allied commanders, politicians and diplomats, something which unfortunately many foreign historians fail to take into account when researching their topic. The papers presents the complexity of undertaking research taking as an example the biography of General Władysław Anders (1890–1970). The sheer volume of primary sources available at the Institute make this a monumental task necessitating strict inner discipline not to be overwhelmed by it. This may in part explain why to date there is no single volume biography of the General encompassing his entire life and the many faceted aspects of his activities.
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Gellrich, Arne Lorenz, Erik Koenen, and Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz. "The epistemic project of open diplomacy and the League of Nations: Co-evolution between diplomacy, PR and journalism." Corporate Communications: An International Journal 25, no. 4 (July 24, 2020): 607–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ccij-11-2019-0129.
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PurposeThe article discusses findings from a research project on the communication history of the League of Nations. It departs from the League's normative goal of “open diplomacy”, which, from an analytical standpoint, can be framed as an “epistemic project” in the sense of a non-linear and ambivalent negotiation by communication of what “open diplomacy” should and could be. The notion of the “epistemic project” serves as an analytical concept to understand this negotiation of open diplomacy across co-evolving actors' constellations from journalism, PR and diplomacy.Design/methodology/approachThe study employs a mixed-method approach, including hermeneutic document analysis of UN archival sources and collective biography/prosopography of 799 individual journalists and information officers.FindingsIt finds that the League's conceptualisations of the public sphere and open diplomacy were fluent and ambivalent. They developed in the interplay of diverse actors' collectives in Geneva. The involved roles of information officers, journalists and diplomats were permeable, heterogenous and – not least from a normative perspective – conflictive.Originality/valueThe subject remains under-researched, especially from the perspective of communication studies. The study is the first to approach it with the described research framework.
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Porshneva, Olga S., and Sergei L. Razinkov. "WOMEN IN THE HIGHEST DIPLOMATIC SERVICE POSITIONS IN THE STATES OF THE FORMER USSR. THE EXPERIENCE OF CREATING A DATABASE." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. Series Political Sciences. History. International Relations, no. 1 (2023): 57–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2023-1-57-75.
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The article considers the database technology usage for the analysis of the social portrait and collective biography of women appointed to the highest diplomatic positions by the leadership of the newly independent states on the territory of the former USSR between 1991 and 2021. It gives a description of the structure of the prosopographic database developed by the authors, as well as substantiates the completeness and representativeness of its information. The article also analyzes basic features of the social portrait of women diplomats: the dynamics of their number, basic education, career timing, the ratio between career diplomats and political appointees, the geographical distribution of women ambassadors by accreditation states. Comparison of the results of the analysis of the database information with the socio-demographic characteristics of the female ambassadors of the US, Germany and the EU made it possible, on the one hand, to identify general trends (a constant increase in the proportion of career diplomats) and differences (in the localization of ambassadors by accreditation countries). In conclusion, information is summarized on the characteristics of the composition of women diplomats in each of the post-Soviet states: based on the dynamics of the number, socio-demographic and professional characteristics of women holding senior diplomatic positions, three groups of states with different models of gender representation in the diplomatic service are identified
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Anisimov, Maksim. "Heinrich Gross of Würtemberg: A Diplomat on Elizabeth Petrovna's Service." Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, no. 5 (2021): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013038640014979-4.
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Heinrich Gross was a diplomat of the Empress of Russia Elizabeth Petrovna, a foreigner on the Russian service who held some of the most important diplomatic posts of her reign. As the head of Russian diplomatic missions in European countries, he was an immediate participant in the rupture of both Franco-Russian and Russo-Prussian diplomatic relations and witnessed the beginning of the Seven Years' War, while in the capital of Saxony, besieged by Prussian troops. After that H. Gross was one of the members of the collective leadership of the Russian Collegium of Foreign Affairs. So far there is only one biographic essay about him written in the 19th century. The aims of this article are threefold. Using both published foreign affairs-related documentation and diplomatic documents stored in the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire, it attempts to systematize the materials of the biography of this important participant in international events. It also seeks to assess his professional qualities and get valuable insight into his role both in the major events of European politics and in the implementation of the foreign policy of the Russian Empire in the mid-18th century. Moreover, the account of the diplomatic career of H. Gross presented in this essay aims to generate genuine interest among researchers in the personality and professional activities of one of the most brilliant Russian diplomats of the Enlightenment Era.
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Bozhko, Oleksandr. "Test for Resistance or Picture of the Époque in the Interior." Diplomatic Ukraine, no. XIX (2018): 851–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.37837/2707-7683-2018-57.
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Memories of the prominent Ukrainian diplomat, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine Volodymyr Khandohii titled “Diplomatic Chapters: True Stories of Career Diplomat” may be significantly distinguished among the other books of this popular genre due to its sharpened polemics. All in all, it is quite logical. Having been voted out of the office of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom in summer 2014, he decided to resign since he had not received any proposals from the Minister. It was when it seemed that he had plenty of time and energy to work. In fact, this book is not about the critical attitude towards the mistakes of the young “reformers team” that came to power in Ukraine on the roar of the revolutionary wave. It is about a difficult but important Soviet period of “phantom diplomacy”, which became a solid brick in the foundation of Ukrainian statehood. Speaking about the diplomat, the author uses interesting associations, unexpected retrospectives, and parallels with modern times. He does not omit the evaluation of important failures, including one that have been made in personnel assignments, namely concerning “Ukrainian leaders with prefix “acting”, who made dramatically significant decisions in spring 2014.The motive of institutional memory preservation is constantly evolving in the book. The author is more than convinced that this issue is relevant for the current Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. It should be noted that Volodymyr Khandohii is one of those few domestic diplomats who has not missed any career stage, starting from the position of the “fairy” attaché (as one of the veterans of the Ukrainian diplomatic service noted) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR in far 1976, and to the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in near 2009.While turning pages of this solid work (which is almost 600 pages of folio format) sometimes you may find yourself thinking that you are reading the history of the entire Ukrainian foreign-policy establishment that, despite certain ornamentality of the Soviet period, played a significant role in the establishment of independent Ukraine and protection and advocacy of its national interests in the world in modern times, rather than the biography of an individual. In other words owing to the memories of Volodymyr Khandohii, a reader has a unique opportunity to look behind the scenes where the history has been created and is still being created. It is likely that not everyone will agree with some of his points concerning the activities of individuals or their roles in Ukrainian diplomacy. In particular, as for me, the author could be more critical, while mentioning certain personalities, especially acquaintances from joint work in the Soviet Foreign Ministry. On the other hand, such subjectivism is quite natural, taking into account the personal character of memoirs as a genre. In the end, V. Khandohii emphasizes that his book is “a sketch of epoch portrait in the interior of author’s own assessments and associations”. Let me add – the epoch that tests our independent state and our people, including Ukrainian diplomats, for resistance. Keywords: Volodymyr Khandohii, “phantom diplomacy”, memoirs, history, Ukrainian foreign policy.
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Facius, Michael. "Transcultural Philology in 19th-century Japan: The Case of Shigeno Yasutsugu (1827-1910)." Philological Encounters 3, no. 1-2 (April 23, 2018): 3–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24519197-12340037.
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Abstract The article explores the role of transcultural encounters for the development of the thought and philology of Shigeno Yasutsugu, an eminent Japanese scholar of history and Chinese learning in 19th-century Japan. It argues that a close look at the impact of Shigeno’s encounters with Western diplomats, Chinese scholar-officials and a German historian illuminates the richness in the biography of a scholar whom the literature has valued predominantly for his role in the introduction of “modern” Western historiography. Through an analysis of the multilayered foundations of his scholarly practice, the article aims to demonstrate the use of a transcultural paradigm in engaging the complexity of the history of knowledge in a period of Western imperialism.
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Popov, I. V. "Yuri V. Dubinin: a biography." Cuadernos Iberoamericanos 8, no. 2 (January 9, 2021): 81–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.46272/2409-3416-2020-8-2-81-83.
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October 7, 2020 marked the 90th birthday anniversary of the prominent Soviet and Russian diplomat Yuri V. Dubinin. The article presents a biography of Y.V. Dubinin, as well as a description of his contribution to the development of national diplomacy.
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Kizilov, Mikhail. "New Data on Marcin Broniowski (Broniewski) and His Tartariae Descriptio (1578)." Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 77, no. 2 (June 25, 2024): 317–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/062.2024.00411.
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The article is devoted to the biography of the Polish traveller and diplomat Marcin Broniowski (d. 1592), author of Tartariae descriptio (1578), a classic description of early modern Crimea. While working on the article, I discovered a number of previously unknown Polish sources relating to the diplomat’s biography. This allowed me to reconstruct Marcin Broniowski’s biography and the chronology of his visits to Crimea. I also analyse the main early modern editions and translations of Tartariae descriptio, as well as its influence on the history of European geographical thought.
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Yastrebov, Alexey. "On the Cooperation Between a High-Ranking Representative of the Holy See and Russian Diplomats in Constantinople in a Letter from Count Sava Raguzinsky to Tsar Peter." Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, no. 5 (2022): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013038640019187-3.
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The document from the collection of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents, published for the first time and annexed to this article, is a vivid testimony to the cooperation between Archbishop Raimondo Gallani OP, the senior representative of the Roman-Catholic Church in the Ottoman Empire, and Russian diplomacy. The person of Gallani has received little attention in both Russian and European historiography. There is no monograph devoted to him, nor is there a satisfactory account of his life. However, his correspondence was extraordinarily wide-ranging. In addition to his immediate Roman superiors, he interacted with the intelligence services of his home republic of Dubrovnik, as well as those of Russia and Venice. Information obtained by the Archbishop was highly valued by Tsar Peter, and his services were generously paid for. The case described in the petition of Sava Raguzinsky involves the protection of Archbishop Gallani from possible disclosure of his activities to the Turkish authorities. The incident incurred the wrath of the Tsar and Raguzinsky was forced to defend himself. A brief biography of Archbishop Gallani is published in Russian for the first time. The author concludes that the cooperation between the Archbishop and Russian diplomacy was less about material interests and more about the former's sympathy for Peter's policies, which can be explained by Gallani's background, given his affinity for the pan-Slavic ideas prevalent among his compatriots.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Diplomats, biography"
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陳群松 and Kwan-chung Chan. "A study of the life and works of Xue Fucheng (1838-1894)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31238191.
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Graff, Frank Warren. "Strategy of involvement a diplomatic biography of Sumner Welles /." New York : Garland, 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/17807643.html.
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Rogers, Ann C. M. "Murder by slander? : a re-examination of the E.H. Norman case." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28274.
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On 4 April, 1957 Egerton Herbert Norman, Canada's Ambassador to Egypt, committed suicide in Cairo. Norman's death was a direct result of sustained American allegations that he was threat to western security.
The controversy surrounding his suicide was rekindled in 1986 with the publication of two biographies of Norman. James Barros contends in No Sense of Evil that Norman should have been removed from his high position in Canada's Department of External Affairs because he constituted a security risk. Barros hypothesises about the possibility of a DEA cover-up of Norman's Marxist past (Norman had briefly been a member of the British Communist Party when he was a student at Cambridge) and indeed suggests that Minister of External Affairs, Lester B. Pearson might have been Moscow's ultimate 'mole' who, by defending Norman, was protecting his espionage ring.
In Innocence is Not Enough, author Roger Bowen takes issue with such interpretations of Norman's life, scholarship and career. Although Norman had been a Communist, Bowen concludes that no evidence exists to suggest that he was disloyal to Canada. Norman was caught up in a maelstrom of anti-communist hysteria which caused him to be unjustifiably vilified and harassed by the agents of McCarthyism in an era of Cold War paranoia.
Instead of choosing a side in the current debate, I have sought to widen it by approaching the story of Norman as a case study in Canadian foreign policy. An examination of Canadian internal security policies in the postwar era, Canada's relationship with the United States and Great Britain, and of Norman himself reveals that the issue at hand is far too complex to be amenable to easy analysis. This thesis was written with the achievement of a more objective analysis as its primary goal.Arts, Faculty of
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Heiberg, Jacobus Petrus. "Dr. A.L. Geyer as Suid-Afrika se hoë kommissaris in die Verenigde Koninkryk (1950-1954)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52244.
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Dissertation (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Dr. A.L. Geyer's appointment in June 1950 as the Union's new High Commissioner to London was largely due to the political objectives of the then government. He was confronted by a number of related challenges, i.e. the furthering of the existing multifaceted South-African-British relations, the promotion of the apartheid policy and convincing the Union's critics as to the merits of the above policy. Geyer, a loyal Afrikaner and staunch republican, experienced soon after arrival that the policy of apartheid and the Union Government's insistence on the transfer of the High Commission territories were placing the existing diplomatic relations under considerable strain. To Geyer's frustration the Union Government failed to realise that the application of the apartheid policy 'was affecting South Africa's foreign relations detrimentally. The effect of the Union's domestic policies was therefore prohibiting any possibility of the transfer of the British-controlled neighbouring territories. Geyer was thus faced with maintaining a delicate balance between white-centred aspirations in South Africa, championing South Africa's interests overseas and his own evolving perspective that the application of the apartheid policy was not going to be acceptable to the outside world. Geyer was also well aware that the Cold War would contribute substantially to the constitutional liberation of the former British colonies in Africa, which in turn would affect the composition of the Commonwealth and South Africa's future membership. He therefore took Union politicians to task for actions that were geared to satisfy short-term party-political expectations, without taking into account both the national and international ramifications of such actions. Geyer did not differ fundamentally with the principles and objectives of apartheid; however, he was no stereotyped Afrikaner who simply supported apartheid without any questioning. In his public appearances he emphasised the historical, cultural and sociopolitical motivation for apartheid, the practical embodiment of the policy and the rights and role of the whites in South Africa. He portrayed apartheid as a political model that envisages equal, but separate development for all races that would ensure the peaceful co- existence of a multi-racial community. Geyer continuously emphasised that only visible and positive results emanating from the application of apartheid, would guarantee acceptance of the policy and also secure the future of the white population in South Africa. Geyer was therefore very critical of the government's inability to give meaningful content to the policy of apartheid. Geyer's biggest personal disappointment was the inability of his mentor and friend, Dr. D.F. Malan, to rise above the role of the party politician in becoming a competent Minister of Foreign Affairs and as Prime Minister, a statesman of international stature.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Politieke oogmerke het daartoe gelei dat die Unieregering vir dr. A.L. Geyer in Junie 1950 na Londen gestuur het as die Unie se nuwe Hoë Kommissaris. Hy is deur verwante uitdagings gekonfronteer, naamlik om die veelvlakkige Suid-Afrikaans-Britse betrekkinge uit te bou, om die apartheidsbeleid te bevorder en om die kritici van die Unieregering te oortuig dat daar geregverdigde meriete in die beleid is. Geyer, 'n lojale en republikeinsgesinde Afrikaner, het na sy aankoms ervaar dat die Unieregering se apartheidsbeleid en die volgehoue aandrang om die oordrag van die Hoë Kommissariaatgebiede, toenemende diplomatieke spanning tussen die lande veroorsaak het. Tot Geyer se frustrasie kon die Unieregering nie insien dat die toepassing van die apartheidsbeleid direkte invloed uitoefen op Suid-Afrika se buitelande betrekkinge nie, wat weer die oordrag van die Brits-beheerde gebiede onmoontlik gemaak het. Geyer moes gevolglik 'n delikate balans handhaaf tussen die blanksentriese verwagtinge in die Unie, die bevordering van Suid-Afrika se belange in die buiteland en sy groterwordende perspektief dat die toepassing van die apartheid nie vir die buitewêreld aanvaarbaar is nie. Geyer was ook terdeë daarvan bewus dat die Koue Oorlog, die grondwetlike ontvoogding van Brittanje se Afrika-kolonies sou verhaas, wat weer beduidende implikasies vir die samestelling van die Statebond en die Unie se voortgesette lidmaatskap ingehou het. Hy het Unie-politici dus gewaarsku teen optredes wat daarop toegespits was om korttermyn partypolitieke verwagtinge te bevredig, sonder om die nasionale en ook internasionale implikasies van die uitsprake te verreken. Geyer het geen fundamentele verskille met die beginsels en oogmerke van apartheid gehad nie, maar terselfdertyd was hy ook nie 'n stereotipe Afrikaner en naprater van apartheid nie. In sy optredes het hy deurentyd die historiese, kulturele en sosio-politieke beweegredes vir apartheid, die beliggaming van die beleid en die blanke se aanspraak op en rol in Suid-Afrika beklemtoon. Apartheid is voorgehou as 'n politieke model wat ten doel het om deur middel van gelykwaardige, maar afsonderlike ontwikkeling die ruimte te skep vir die vreedsame voortbestaan van 'n veelrassige gemeenskap. Geyer het groot erns daarvan gemaak om te beklemtoon dat die aanvaarding van die apartheidsbeleid en die blanke se voortbestaan in Suid-Afrika nou verbind word aan die positiewe en sigbare gevolge van die toepassing van apartheid. Geyer het dit dan ook nodig gevind om kritiek uit te spreek oor die regering se klaarblyklike onvermoë om daadwerklike inhoud aan positiewe apartheid te gee. Die grootste persoonlike teleurstelling wat Geyer egter beleef het, was sy ontnugtering dat sy mentor en vriend, dr. D.F. Malan, nie sy rol as partypolitikus kon ontgroei en ontwikkel in 'n bekwame minister van Buitelandse Sake en 'n Eerste Minister wat 'n staatsman van internasionale statuur is nie.
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Durand, Edwige Renée. "Charles de Mouy, diplomate et littérateur : regards d'un français sur l'Empire Ottoman, 1875-1880." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10452.
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Charles de Mouy, nai t en 1834 a Paris, et est un homme qui a de l'ambition tout en etant brillant; il va en quelque sorte se creer lui-meme dans la societe francaise. Apres avoir envisage une carriere litteraire et travaille dans la presse, il entre au Ministere des Affaires etrangeres sans intention particuliere d'y faire carriere. Le sort en decidera autrement, lorsqu'en 1875, il est envoye a Constantinople. De Mouy, fascine par la Grece antique, a laquelle il oppose un Empire ottoman barbare, arrive a Constantinople un an avant la conference du meme nom, qui va decider du depart des ambassadeurs, et ne laisser sur place que des charges d'affaires. Il sera d'ailleurs charge d'en rediger les protocoles. C'est donc ainsi que de Mouy va faire connaissance avec l'Orient, en pleine guerre russo-ottomane, et qu'il sera responsable de l'ambassade de France. Ces responsabilites developpent en lui une bonne connaissance de la Question d'Orient, principal probleme politique et diplomatique dans les relations intemationales de la seconde moitie du XIXe siecle, et une envie de faire carriere dans le domaine diplomatique. De plus, s'etant fait de bonnes relations et une solide reputation dans le milieu des diplomates en poste, il sera naturellement designe pour rediger les protocoles du Congres de Berlin en 1878, et de la Conference de Berlin en 1880. C'est alors qu'il obtiendra le poste tant attendu de ministre plenipotentiaire, toujours en Orient, puisqu'il s'agit d'Athenes. Mais, de Mouy ne s'est pas seulement occupe de diplomatie en Orient. II a ecrit des recits de voyage et des souvenirs qui, bien entendu, se passent en Orient. Ses appreciations litteraires semblent, au premier abord, etre assez differentes que ses discours politiques. Il va meme se servir de l'Empire ottoman pour rever d'une societe francaise regeneree. En effet, de Mouy, meme s'il s'en accomode, n'apprecie guere de voir son pays gouverne par la IIIe Republique. C'est un bonapartiste, catholique, et assez conservateur. Mais c'est aussi un romantique, un patriote passionne et marque par la situation de la France apres le desastre de 1870. Politique et sentiments ne font pas toujours bon menage, mais c'est quand meme le meme homme qui nous parle de "son" Orient. Finalement tous ses discours, qui semblent dans un premier abord assez dissemblables, finissent par se rejoindre. Quoiqu'il en soit, de Mouy a sincerement aime les Ottomans, meme s'il ne les a pas toujours compris.
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Maxson, Brian. "Review of Niccolò Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6207.
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Szatkowski, Tim. "Karl Carstens : eine politische Biographie /." Köln [u.a.] : Böhlau, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2958213&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Neri-Ultsch, Daniela. "Anton Freiherr von Cetto (1756-1847) : ein bayerischer Diplomat der napoleonischen Zeit : eine politische Biographie /." Sigmaringen : J. Thorbecke, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35647739k.
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Grant, Angela. "The view from the fountain head : the rise and fall of John Gwenogvryn Evans." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1c490921-9480-4cc6-bed2-f3e1948a4817.
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John Gwenogvryn Evans was an important figure in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Welsh Celtic Studies, because he published accurate diplomatic editions of medieval manuscripts that are still used today. He also compiled an important and detailed Report on Welsh Manuscripts for the Historic Manuscripts Commission that was of significant utility to scholars of his day, and still has uses for its detailed description of manuscripts. His extraordinary talent for accuracy in the reproduction of medieval script came to the attention of John Rhŷs, then Professor of Celtic at Jesus College, Oxford. Through Rhŷs he was exposed to the best scholarship of his day, and with the assistance of scholars such as Egerton Phillimore and John Morris Jones, he was enabled to produce work of enduring value. Due to his limited training in Welsh linguistics, and in research methodology, there were, from the start, serious flaws in his interpretation of early Welsh. Later, on losing contact with academic influences due to unwise actions, he fell into a pseudoscientific mentality more common earlier in the 19th century, seeking to find historical fact in poetry of legend and prophecy. Major errors arose from his later inclination to consider the date of a manuscript and the date of the content to be identical, and the ridicule that resulted from his 'amendments and translations' to early poetry so undermined his credibility that he never completed the full range of his intended series of texts. This study traces the origins, manifestations, and consequences of his dual nature through seven chapters. It considers the value of his solid earlier work, and balances it against the follies of his later translations, and seeks to give a fairer view of the value of his work to his own generation, and to those that followed on from him.
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Beauvois, Yves. "Carrière et engagement politique de l'ambassadeur Léon Noël, 1888-1987." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997IEPP0032.
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Cette thèse à caractère biographique analyse les liens unissant la progression de la carrière d'un haut fonctionnaire français et son degré de politisation. Quel rôle jouait l'engagement partisan dans les différents modes de promotion et dans la pratique des responsabilités ? Pour répondre à cette question, l'extrême durée des fonctions de Léon Noël (1914-1966) et leur grande diversité (auditeur au conseil d'Etat, membre de cabinets ministériels, délégué général auprès du haut-commissaire en Rhénanie, préfet, directeur de la Sûreté générale, ambassadeur, délégué général dans les territoires occupés, député, président du Conseil constitutionnel) offraient un terrain particulièrement varié. L'analyse fait apparaitre un haut fonctionnaire de la IIIe République se préservant de toute allégeance idéologique, mais se ménageant des contacts personnels étroits avec le personnel politique. Cet équilibre, maintenu au nom de la neutralité de l'Etat, permettait, avant-guerre, de s'arroger une certaine part d'autonomie. Au contraire, la très grande proximité de Léon Noël avec de Gaulle ne lui permit plus, sous la Ve République, alors même qu'il présidait la plus haute juridiction du pays, censée indépendante, d'échapper à la pression d'un exécutif bénéficiant maintenant de la durée. L'étude du parcours de l'ambassadeur est l'occasion, par ailleurs, de dégager les motivations de son ambition et, sur un autre plan, de faire progresser la connaissance historique dans plusieurs domaines, dont certains peu explorés : le règlement de la séparation de l'Eglise et de l'Etat, la fin de l'occupation française en Rhénanie, les relations franco-polono-tchécoslovaques d'avant-guerre, l'exil du gouvernement polonais en France, la naissance de la délégation générale de Vichy dans la zone nord, le fonctionnement du R. P. F. , ainsi que les débuts, de 1959 à 1965, du Conseil constitutionnel, institution surtout connue au travers de sa seule jurisprudenceThis biography analyses the links between the professional progress of a high ranking civil servant and the degree of his political involvement. What was the part played by partisan involvement in the various modes of promotion and in professional practice? To answer that question, the great length of time during which Noël remained in office (1914-1966), and the variety of posts he occupied (junior official at the Conseil d'Etat, adviser to members of government, general delegate to the high commissioner in Rhineland, prefect, head of the Sûreté nationale, ambassador, general delegate in the occupied territories, member of parliament, president of the Conseil constitutionnel) provided a particularly varied investigation ground. Our analysis reveals that he tried to avoid any kind of ideological allegiance, while establishing close connections with politicians. Before WWII, such a balance, maintained in the name of state neutrality, enabled 3rd Rep. High ranking civil servants to secure a certain degree of autonomy. Conversely, during the 5th Rep. , while noel presided the highest jurisdiction of the country, which was supposedly independant, his close relationship with de Gaulle no longer allowed him to avoid the pressure of the now stable executive power. Besides, the study of the ambassador's career has enabled us to clarify the motivations of his ambitions. It has also permitted to enlarge the scope of historical knowledge in several fields, some of which had hardly been explored before : the final stages of the separation between the Church and the State, the end of French occupation in Rhineland, the interplay of relations between France, Poland and Czechoslovakia before WWII, the exile of the Polish government in France, the birth of the general delegation of Vichy in the north zone, the workings of the R. P. F. , and the beginnings of the Conseil constitutionnel (from 1959 to 1965), an institution which had been known so far chiefly through its jurisprudence
Books on the topic "Diplomats, biography"
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International Development Research Centre (Canada), ed. Third-world diplomats in dialogue with the First World: The new diplomacy. London: Macmillan in association with International Development Research Centre, 1985.
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McKercher, B. J. C. Esme Howard: A diplomatic biography. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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Hardy, Rae. Distaff diplomacy, or, My elegant life as a diplomat's wife. Victoria, B.C: Trafford, 2001.
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1913-, Craig Gordon Alexander, and Gilbert Felix 1905-, eds. The Diplomats, 1919-1939. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1994.
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1913-, Craig Gordon Alexander, and Loewenheim Francis L, eds. The Diplomats, 1939-1979. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1994.
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Maramis, Johan Boudewijn Paul. A journey into diplomacy: Memoirs of an Indonesian diplomat. Jakarta: Pustaka Sinar Harapan, 1995.
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editor, Ahmad Sameer, ed. Diplomatic footprints. Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2021.
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Radji, Parviz C. Khidmatguzār-i Takht-i Tāvūs. 4th ed. Tihrān: Intishārāt-i Iṭlāʻāt, 1986.
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Vimr, Ondřej. "Early Institutionalised Promotion of Translation and the Socio-Biography of Emil Walter, Translator, Press Attaché and Diplomat." In Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in 'Peripheral' Cultures, 41–68. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78114-3_2.
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Gusev, Nikita S. "Russian correspondents — authors of the books on the First Balkan War in Bulgaria in 1912–1913." In A Stranger’s Gaze: Diplomats, Journalists, Scholars — Travellers between East and West from the Eighteenth Century to the Twenty-First, 185–207. Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Nestor-Istoriia, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/4469-1767-9.12.
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This essay is devoted to the work of Russian correspondents in Bulgaria during the First Balkan war. The author points to the obstacles imposed by censorship, which aimed to hide the truth of the war from the European public. As a result, this often led to the invention of news. At the same time, the authorities showed affection towards journalists and wanted to present their country in the most favourable light in the press. To understand the author's positions, we outline the biography of the authors who collected their essays in books: the patriarch of Russian military journalism, the writer Vas. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko; lawyer and journalist A.A. Pilenko; writer E.N. Chirikov; and officer N. P. Mamontov. This position is also shown in other works about the Balkan wars (books by V.N. von Dreyer, L.D. Trotsky, E.I. Martynov, and N.I. Gasfeld), but is not included in the framework of the stated theme, as well as in two unpublished works of Russian eyewitnesses (N.K. Samoseev and V. Viktorov-Toporov).
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Congdon, Lee. "A Brief Biography." In George Kennan for Our Time, 6–26. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501765186.003.0002.
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This chapter presents a brief biography of George Kennan. Born in Milwaukee on February 16, 1904, Kennan took great pride in his family. He was proud of the fact that his family's tradition of farming bred into him a love of the rural life, a strong work ethic, and a spirit of independence. The chapter details how Kennan achieved fluency in the German language, as well as his education at Princeton University. Raymond Sontag, a distinguished historian of European diplomacy, was instrumental in leading Kennan, on graduation, to try for the newly organized Foreign Service. The chapter recounts his assignment at Hamburg and at Prague as an officer charged with maintaining custody of US diplomatic files and preserving US property. When Adolf Hitler launched World War II in Europe, the State Department transferred him to Berlin. The chapter also looks at Kennan's “Long Telegram,” in which he argued that relations with the USSR could be maintained as long as realism governed policy. Two months after he sent the telegram, he received appointment as the deputy commandant for foreign affairs at the newly established National War College in Washington, DC. Subsequently, he became the director of State's new Policy Planning Staff, charged with identifying America's long-term foreign policy objectives.
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Santangeli, Ronald. "The Young Diplomat." In Mary Queen of Scots: The First Biography, 20–25. BRILL, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004529410_005.
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"14. The Biographer." In The Diplomat-Scholar, 178–92. ISEAS Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1355/9789814762434-018.
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"4. Diplomats and Biographic Intelligence." In Delegated Diplomacy, 127–50. Columbia University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/lind20932-006.
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Nosenko-Shtein, Elena E. "Artemy Rafalovich and his Essays by Russian Doctor: Historical and ethnographic source." In A Stranger’s Gaze: Diplomats, Journalists, Scholars — Travellers between East and West from the Eighteenth Century to the Twenty-First, 307–20. Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Nestor-Istoriia, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/4469-1767-9.18.
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The author considers the biography of Artemy Rafalovich and his Essays by a Russian doctor as a source for ethnography of the population of the Near East in the first half of the nineteenth century. Rafalovich had been sent by the Russian Ministry of Home Affairs to countries under the rule of Ottoman Empire in order to investigate reasons for the emergence and spread of the plague. His Essays by a Russian doctor who had been sent to the Orient were the main source for this essay, especially the second part of these Essays in which the climate, agriculture, urban centers, and populations of Syria, Palestine and Lebanon are described. The au-thor follows the life of Artemy Rafalovich and stresses that many facts are still not sufficiently researched. Further, the author analyses the Essays as a source for the study of the history of medicine, public hygiene in the region, and the reasons for infectious diseases described by Rafalovich. The author also emphasizes that Rafalovich became a member of Ethnographic Department of the Russian Imperial Geographical Society, and during his trips he described the population - ethnic and religious groups of the region - its numbers, activities, customs, and so on. Rafalovich was a baptized Jew, so he distanced himself from the different Jew-ish groups of the region; he describes their numbers and sometimes the hygiene of Jewish quarters. He was mainly interested in description of Jewish hospitals and pharmacies. The author concludes that Essays by Rafalovich were of great importance for medical research in his time, for example by highlighting the influence of climate, water, and food on the public health of the region. Moreover, his topographic descriptions - including clarifications of riverbeds, directions of mountain chains, and so forth - would have been of interest to the Russian intelligence service, and the activities of Artemy Rafalovich were highly regarded by the Russian government.
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Zanou, Konstantina. "An Unknown ‘Miracle’." In Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850, 165–86. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198788706.003.0013.
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Chapter 10 provides insight into Andrea Mustoxidi’s biography (1785–1860), focusing in particular on the way this largely forgotten Corfiot, who was famous in his own lifetime, inserted himself into the Italian and European intellectual scene with works on philology and history inspired by Neoclassicism and philhellenism. It also unearths the unknown adventure of this man’s involvement in Russian diplomacy and the 1821 revolution in Piedmont, as well as his subsequent transformation from a Russian diplomat into a Greek minister (the first ‘Ephor’ for culture and education in Greece) and into a liberal politician on the British Ionian Islands. By so doing, the chapter also studies the educational programme of Kapodistrias’s government, as well as the adventure of liberal politics in the British Mediterranean Empire.
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"5. Diplomacy and the Restoration of a New Order." In Biography of an Empire, 107–51. University of California Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520947757-009.
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Bergeron, David M. "Introduction: ‘Nearest to The King’." In The Duke of Lennox, 1574-1624, 1–6. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781399500449.003.0001.
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The Introduction establishes the essential argument of the book: that Lennox was the most important courtier in the Jacobean court from his arrival from France in 1583 until his death in 1624. This section sketches the evidence for this claim in his political, diplomatic, and personal life. The Introduction outlines the organization of the biography, chapter by chapter. It also discusses the research involved in the biography.
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Alves da Silva, Cristiane, and Mirtes Marins de Oliveira. "The exhibition design of a House Museum: the Dining Room as a case study." In LINK 2021. Tuwhera Open Access, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2021.v2i1.104.
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The exhibition space of a Collector's House Museum, the specific case of the Ema Klabin House Museum (HMEK), offers the field of exhibition design a unique place for research due to its nature, which moves from the private to the public and presents artifacts that allow entering the biography of objects and understanding them from a material culture perspective. The present research, still in progress, has as a case study, the environment of the Dining Room at HMEK, which evokes, more than any other room, domesticity and the memory of home while at the same time convoking the experience of the museum space. The research proposes the centrality of the Dining Room both in the practices of the former residence and in the discursive elaboration of the current museum. In this context and in the proposal of this research, the study of the Dining Room, its materialities, uses and spatial organization in both historical moments is an exemplary case for the implementation of research in a house museum, serving its study, based on the indicated variables, to highlight possibilities in this type of institution based on its physicality. The former residence of collector, businesswoman and patron Ema Gordon Klabin houses a multicultural collection that encompasses visual arts, ethnographic objects, books, furniture and decorative arts, exhibited in preserved environments from a house register with exhibition design that highlights the practices of the house, collector and building of modernized classical architecture. It is considered that artifacts are memory supports, vectors capable of preserving or reviving them, provoking relationships between what has been experienced and the situations of the present time. The Dining Room, used for diplomatic and social purposes, is a space measuring 4.80m X 5.30m and connects to the social rooms of the house with a large glass door accessing the external patio, environment with tropical plants and an Italian fountain. It is accessed through a gallery - a must-see for visitors to the house and now, to the museum - and the living room. On the opposite wall, a camouflaged door accesses the kitchen and service areas – currently the museum's reception area – where the French service was carried out. Currently, the Dining Room is organized in accordance with photographs and other historical records that attest to its use before its change to museum status. It exhibits documents and objects that attest to the memory of the uses and customs of this space, for example, the Reception Book, in which the hostess described each event, her guests and the planning of the reception. The research proposes an understanding of the cultural trajectory of objects and the implication of design in the activation of private memories of a domestic environment that, by becoming a museological space, provokes collective memories through its exhibition design, investigating the application of design to address the feedback between experience and history.