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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.
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Kubyshkin, Alexander, and Ivan Kurilla. "“Reluctant Diplomat”: Nikolai Vasilievich Novikov’s Biography Pages." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija, no. 1 (March 2024): 87–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2024.1.8.
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Introduction. The article analyzes the biography and diplomatic activities of Nikolai Vasilievich Novikov (1903–1989), a Soviet diplomat who represented the USSR in Cairo and in Washington during World War II and took part in the efforts to establish a new system of international relations at the beginning of the Cold War. Methods and materials. The article is based on published texts by Nikolai Novikov himself, diplomatic documents, periodicals, and materials from his personal archive, deposited in the Archive of the European University at St. Petersburg by the diplomat’s family. Analysis. The authors examine Novikov’s biography, the reasons for his rapid career in the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, his relations with Soviet foreign policy managers, and the circumstances of his resignation at a relatively young age. Special attention is paid to Novikov’s activities in the United States in the context of the emerging Cold War, the place of Novikov’s note (cable) in the process of shaping Soviet approaches to relations with the United States, and his own attitude to these approaches. Results. Novikov’s contribution to the shaping of the postwar world is underappreciated, as are his attempts to resist the changes that were breaking Soviet-American cooperation in the international arena. In fact, the strategic concepts formulated by Novikov in a memo to Molotov were the basis of the official Soviet interpretation of the causes and nature of the Cold War and were included in Soviet school and university textbooks on universal history and the history of international relations. Authors’ contributions. A.I. Kubyshkin analyzed the most important stages of Nikolai Novikov’s diplomatic activity and the general situation in relations between the USSR and the USA during the Second World War. He assessed Novikov’s activities from the political leadership of the USSR and foreign countries in which the Soviet diplomat worked. He also examined the most important aspects of the activities of Soviet diplomacy reflected in Novikov’s memoirs and carried out their internal criticism as a historical source. I.I. Kurilla processed the archive of Nikolai Novikov and identified and analyzed the corpus of sources of personal origin. He also analyzed the contents of Nikolai Novikov’s personal diaries, reviewed the personal contribution of N.V. Novikov in developing a strategy in relations with the United States in the initial period of the Cold War, and compared the contents of the “long telegram” of J. Kennan and the “Novikov telegram”.
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Khrapunov, Nikita I. "The Account of the Crimean Khanate in a Treatise by Adrian de Verdy du Vernois." Golden Horde Review 11, no. 1 (March 29, 2023): 109–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22378/2313-6197.2023-11-1.109-122.
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Research objectives: The aim of this article is to explore a lesser-known source that provides information about the Crimean Khanate – a treatise called “Essays on the Geography, Politics, and History of the Turkish Empire in Europe,” written by the French “armchair” scholar Adrian-Marie-François de Verdy du Vernois, who collected and summarized various materials on the history of the region in his work. Research materials: The article is based on an extract dedicated to the Crimea from the aforementioned treatise, which was published twice, in 1784 and 1785. This text has not yet been studied in Russian historiography. Results and novelty of the research: The study sheds light on the biography of de Verdy du Vernois, demonstrating the diversity of his scholarly interests. It is shown that during his work on the analyzed treatise, the Frenchman used a wide variety of sources, including books written by French diplomats and writers, encyclopedic works of “armchair” researchers, maps of the Northern Black Sea region, and state documents. The article reveals the information potential of the French treatise, which describes the geographical location and history of the Crimean Khanate, its relations with the Ottoman Sultan and the circumstances under which the Crimea accepted the Turkish protectorate, the ethnic structure of the state, the urban centres subordinated to the khan, the cities under Turkish power, the Russian interests in the Black Sea Area, and the Russo-Ottoman war of 1768–1774. Additionally, the article shows the place of the analyzed book among contemporary Western intellectuals’ perceptions of the Crimea and reveals erroneous and stereotypical views.
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Klieman, Aharon. "Advocating for Israel: Diplomats and Lobbyists from Truman to Nixon / Golda Meir: A Political Biography / No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel." Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 12, no. 2 (May 4, 2018): 247–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23739770.2018.1513628.
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Šileikienė, Rasa Marija. "Henriko Valua išrinkimo Abiejų Tautų Respublikos valdovu vaizdavimas lotyniškoje prancūzų poezijoje: „J. de La Gessée“ Henriada ir jos autorius." LMA Vrublevskių bibliotekos darbai 11 (2022): 33–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.54506/lmavb.2022.11.6.
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In 1573, Henry de Valois, Duke of Anjou, was elected as the king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and some literary works were published to familiarize the French public with the history of Poland and Lithuania, the geographical and economic situation of the country. Some Polish historical works were translated into French (e.g. the chronicle of Jan Herburt of Felsztin), many poets wrote occasional poems, dedicated to the future king, in French, Polish, and Latin. This article aims to discuss the poem Henrias, dedicated to Henry de Valois, written in Latin by a French poet under the pseudonym Jean de La Gessée, – a rare and completely unexplored work until today. Henrias was addressed not only to the future king but also to the court, the French diplomats and ambassadors of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Henry de Valois is portrayed here according to the tradition of Renaissance epic poetry by using an ethical model of the ruler’s “virtues” and by discussing the ruler’s place in history, linking him both to the mythological origins of the French nation (to the myth of Trojan ancestry), and to the former rulers of Poland and Lithuania (the ruler is depicted here as the successor of their policy). The poet also presented a description of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – the future reign of Henry de Valois – in accordance with the literary tradition of 16th-century representations of Poland–Lithuania. To be noted, this is the first description of Poland–Lithuania in French poetry in Latin and one of the first in all French poetry. The author also wrote an unpublished larger-scale heroic epic Poloniade in French, dedicated to Henry de Valois, but it has not survived. This article also serves as an introduction to the biography and works of this not-well-known poet and discusses the problem of the authorship of his works. It is highly probable that the authorship was so far misattributed and that the author’s name is just a pseudonym of another court poet – talented and highly educated courtier Louis d’Amboise, as shown by the many details, hidden in his poems, including biographical facts (in all his works) and the anagrams of his name (in his Latin poems). Henrias and other Latin poems of this author (e.g. Epigrammatôn … libri duo) show the direct and close contact of the author with the royal entourage, top politicians, and foreign diplomats. It is unlikely that the author was a newcomer protestant Gascon, looking for success in Paris because Henrias was undoubtedly written at the king’s request and was very well paid (as well as the Poloniade). It shows that the author was a Catholic and he was quite familiar with the history and political realities of Poland–Lithuania. Keywords: 16th century; Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; Henri III, Henri de Valois; 1573 ruler election; Latin Lituanica; neo-Latin literature; 16th-century occasional poetry; 16th-century French literature; Henrias; Jean de La Gessée; Louis d’Amboise.
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Boiechko, Vasyl. "From Scientific Work to Practical Diplomacy." Diplomatic Ukraine, no. XIX (2018): 169–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.37837/2707-7683-2018-8.
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Ukrainian-Romanian relations have in fact become the main subject of my professional life. I started as a historian during the Soviet Union times and later as a diplomat of Independent Ukraine from December of 1992. For almost 14 years out of 24 of my diplomatic service I worked first as political adviser at the Embassy of Ukraine in Romania (1994–1999), and then twice as Consul General of Ukraine in Romanian city of Suceava in 2001-2005 and in 2010–2014. I had the honour to open the Ukrainian consular office in Romania in 2001, which was unfortunately closed in 2014! It was a combination of pleasant moments with sad feelings. Due to a certain aggravation of relations between Ukraine and Romania in the middle of 1994, in particular the Transnistrian crisis, I was urgently appointed as a Counsellor at our Embassy in Bucharest. Thus, after a year and a half of joining the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in July 1994 I left for a long-term diplomatic appointment to Romania. After the end of this assignment in November 1999, I was appointed as a deputy Head of the Secretariat of the new Minister for Foreign Affairs Borys I. Tarasiuk. In December 2001 I was appointed as the first Consul General of Ukraine in Suceava city. At that time, the Ukrainian-Romanian political relations were rather complicated. Occasionally, the Romanian side officially accused Ukraine of “non-fulfilment” of the basic bi-lateral political agreement, especially with regard to ensuring the cultural and educational rights of the Romanian minority in Ukraine, although the real situation was completely different. The first Consulate General of Ukraine in Romania which I had the honour to open, performed all the functions stipulated by our national Consular Statute. Our first concern was the provision of necessary support to citizens of Ukraine who visited Romania or lived in this country. My first Consular mission to Romania ended in 2005 and from September 2010 to November of 2014 I again represented Ukraine in Suceava. However, this time my working mood was not so uplifted. Then I remembered an advice of B. I. Tarasiuk, then already the deputy at our Verkhovna Rada, who said to me, “You have to serve Ukraine”. The distinctive thing about consular work is that its main aim is to protect the rights of Ukrainian citizens living or temporarily staying in the territory of a country of one’s appointment. Therefore, I paid special attention to this working direction. After returning from Romania, I worked for some time again as the Ambassador at large and reaching the retirement age in January 2016 I discontinued my diplomatic service by my own will, as I believed that young Ukrainian diplomats should have “space” for their career and professional growth. Keywords: Embassy of Ukraine in Romania, Consulate General of Ukraine in the Romanian city of Suceava, reminiscences, biography, diplomatic service of Ukraine.
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Shatokhina-Mordvintseva, Galina. "Diplomat Aleksandr Gavrilovich Golovkin: New Touches to Biographical Portrait." Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, no. 5 (2021): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013038640015098-5.
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Aleksandr Gavrilovich Golovkin (1688–1760) is a famous Russian diplomat of the first half of the XVIII century. His name is associated with a number of prominent pages in the history of bilateral relations of Russia with Prussia, France and most important – with the Republic of United Provinces, to which A. Golovkin was Ambassador Plenipotentiary for almost thirty years. However, today both Russian and foreign historiography is lacking substantial pieces of research dedicated to A. Golovkin. Up to the present moment biography, compiled by the diplomat himself in 1756 for a questionnaire of high-ranking state officials ordered by the Emperor’s decree, and a short section in the Memoireswritten by A. Golovkin’s grandson are the only scarce available pieces of information to build upon. The Ambassador perished in the Netherlands. Thus, family archive documents for a period encompassing more than two centuries ended up scattered among numerous private collections of his descendants settled abroad. The ambassador’s wife was Catherine Henriette von Dona of an ancient Saxon family. This article strives to enrich A. Golovkin’s biography with yet unknown facts about his family ties with aristocratic houses of Europe, in particular with the Orange-Nassau dynasty, as well as to show the diplomat’s status among high-ranking officials of Russia in the middle of the XVIII century, what property he owned and what contributed to his long and successful service in the system of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs foreign missions. The look into Ambassador A. Golovkin’s personality is, first of all, designed to encourage the interest of researchers in his invaluable legacy – diplomatic correspondence stored in the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire.
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Adelson, Roger, and B. J. C. Mckercher. "Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography." American Historical Review 96, no. 3 (June 1991): 877. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2162509.
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Zaitsev, Roman V. "Joachim von Ribbentrop: Man, Politician, Diplomat." Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” 65 (March 1, 2020): 487–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.24030/24092517-2020-0-4-487-491.
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The book of V.E. Molodiakov, a well-known Russian historian, is devoted to the life of the Third Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893 – 1946). On the basis of the impressive strata of documents and literary sources the author reconstructs the biography of Ribbentrop, analyzes his diplomatic views and concepts, and describes in detail the Reich minister’s role in Germany’s internal and foreign policy in the 30s and 40s of the 20th century. There are several unique photos in the book, including those from the collection of V.E. Molodiakov.
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Zherdeva, Yulia Aleksandrovna. "Professor of the Kuibyshev Planning Institute Vasily Lvovich Pogodin: materials for the biography." Samara Journal of Science 8, no. 3 (August 5, 2019): 214–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/snv201983218.
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The paper is based on archival materials about the activities of the Kuibyshev Planning Institute of the 1930s. It reconstructs the biography of the Russian and Soviet diplomat, military and academic of the first third of the 20th century, Vasily Lvovich Pogodin (1870 - after 1937). The study reveals a set of documentary evidence on the diplomatic and pedagogical career of V. Pogodin in the first years of the Soviet power, and determines the features of his pedagogical and party activities in Kuibyshev in 1933-1937. The author highlights a special role of the Planning Institute party committee materials as well as the high school workers trade union in the reconstruction of Pogodins biography. The paper emphasizes that Pogodin was considered to be one of the best lecturers of the Kuibyshev Planning Institute and a credible party worker. It is noted that his noble origin, service in the tsarist army and membership in the party of the Social Revolutionaries until 1937 were not the reason for penalties or prosecution by the party or the university administration. As a result, the author concludes that the fate of Vasily Lvovich Pogodin shows an extraordinary character of his personality. He made a brilliant military career in the years of the late Russian empire and became a major general of the Russian imperial army. Then he managed to integrate into the new Soviet system, radically changing the sphere of his activity and having achieved no less outstanding results in diplomacy and education. He became the plenipotentiary representative of the Far Eastern Republic in China, the director of a number of educational and cultural institutions of the Far East, then a professor of political economy in Kuibyshev.
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Rabinovich, Y. N. "Personalities of The Time of Troubles: Semeon Gavrilovich Korobyin." Izvestiya of Saratov University. History. International Relations 11, no. 2(2) (2011): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1819-4907-2011-11-2-2-11-18.
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In article unknown pages of history of struggle between Russia, Poland and Sweden in the Time of Troubles are considered. For the first time voivode and diplomat Semeon Gavrilovich Korobyin’s detailed biography is presented. He participated in the revolt of Bolotnikov, and then has come over to the side of Vasily Shuisky, battled against Lzhedmitrij II, released Moscow from Poles in 1611–1612.
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Fetisenko, Olga. "Poles as “Favorite Enemies” of Russia: K.N. Leontiev’s View." Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” 3 (October 15, 2023): 152–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.24030/24092517-2023-0-3-152-159.
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The author of the article examines the views of K.N. Leontiev not so much on the Polish question (part of the Eastern question), but on the Polish people themselves in their constant confrontation with Russia. His views and opinions are considered against the background of the biography of the writer and diplomat, whose career began just during the Polish uprising (1863–1864).
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Gürler, Ahmet Yavuz. "Book Review: Thomas A. Schwartz, Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography, New York: Hill and Wang, 2020." Netsol: New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences 7, no. 2 (November 1, 2022): 55–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.24819/netsol2022.11.
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Henry Kissinger has been an active politician and diplomat in the international politics of Cold War with demonstrated success in theory and practice. He is one of the rare politicians with a quite a few biography books. In this latest biography of Kissinger, Thomas Schwartz from Vanderbilt University reveals a unique perspective on Kissinger’s life and work. Learning about Kissinger's life and his decision-making process is as crucial as the most fundamental question of the book: Who is Kissinger? What would or could Kissinger do? Beyond Kissinger, the book entails information about the politicians Kissinger interacted across the world on various political disputes. Schwartz’s work objectively summarizes these disputes and Kissinger’s approach to each dispute gives reader a glimpse of his political personality.
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Sloan, Edward W., and David F. Long. "Sailor-Diplomat: A Biography of Commodore James Biddle, 1783-1848." Military Affairs 49, no. 2 (April 1985): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1988415.
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Александрова, Надежда. "Споменът като архив. Елка Константинова в една недовършена анкета." Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, no. 19 (February 23, 2021): 211–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pss.2020.19.10.
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Elka Konstantinova is a well-known name in Poland. She has defined her work as a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and as a diplomat in Warsaw as an important part of her life. The text presents an unknown and unpublished survey on her memories about her work in Poland and the circumstances of preparing this unfinished survey ment to deal with the question of Konstantinova’s biography and memories.
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Lindquist, Thea. "John Taylor (1597–1655), English Catholic Gentleman and Caroline Diplomat." Recusant History 28, no. 1 (May 2006): 75–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034193200011067.
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During the Thirty Years’ War, John Taylor served at the Habsburg courts in Brussels, Madrid, and Vienna. Although he figured prominently in Charles I's secret Habsburg foreign policy during the war and was one of the ‘persons of distinction’ included in the original Dictionary of National Biography, published information on Taylor is sparse. His story is especially compelling given his own and his family's connections with Continental Catholicism as well as his involvement, as a gentleman of indisputably Catholic background, in English diplomacy of the time.
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Carroll, Francis M. "Ireland's Revolutionary Diplomat: A Biography of Leopold Kerney by Barry Whelan." New Hibernia Review 25, no. 3 (2021): 148–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2021.0040.
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Gladkov, Alexander. "“Journey there and back again”: church diplomacy and political realities in the West Europe of the 12th century." OOO "Zhurnal "Voprosy Istorii" 2022, no. 12-2 (December 1, 2022): 20–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.31166/voprosyistorii202212statyi80.
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Experience of reconstruction of outstanding English intellectual and political thinker John of Salisbury (1115/1120-1180) an italian period of his biography is suggested in the article for the first time in native historiography, his original diplomatic career attracts scientist’s attention for a long time but it has never been the subject of special research. The basic milestones of the intellectual's biography, the way of his professional realization, the descriptions of European political realities of the 12th century, and his church and diplomatic ties are considered.
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Borisyonok, Yuriy A., and Anastasiya E. Kuzmicheva. "The new biography of Colonel Józef Beck." Slavic Almanac, no. 1-2 (2020): 482–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2073-5731.2020.1-2.6.02.
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Chociłowski J. Najpierw Polska. Rzecz o Józefie Becku. - Warszawa, 2019. - 256 s. Colonel of artillery and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland in 1932- 1939 Józef Beck (1894-1944) without a doubt was an exceptional figure on the Polish political scene of the interwar twenty years. The book of Jerzy Chociłowski “Poland above all. The Story of Józef Beck” is a manifestation of unremitting interest in the personality of the head of diplomacy. Although the book is described as the “first complete biographical story” about Beck, we find very few new details from the life and biography of the colonel. Chociłowski evaluates Beck’s figure in a completely different way than a number of historians and publicists, such as Terlecki and S. Cat-Mackiewicz, and this is some of the value of his book.
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Soyegov, Myratgeldi. "About the Celebrities of the First Decades of the XX-th Century Carrying Uncharacteristic for the Turkmens of the Surname with Indicators -sky and -skaja: the Mamed-Khan Tekinsky." Ethnic Culture 3, no. 3 (September 25, 2021): 10–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.31483/r-99172.
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The article covers the questions connected with life and activity of a certain circle of known people, many of which were born in Turkmenistan, at will of destiny at children's age were brought up out of the primary native land. The Mamed-khan Tekinsky (1880?–1938) was one of those which description of destiny became the primary goal for the author of given article. Basiing on the historical and biographical method, the main milestones in the life and work of celebrities of the first decades of the twentieth century, who bore surnames uncharacteristic for the Turkmen, were identified, in particular, Mamed Khan Tekinsky. During the study it was revealed that information about him can be found in the state archive of the Odessa region of Ukraine, many materials can be found in the works of Azerbaijani scientists, at the same time, his fate after April 1920 is unknown. The conclusions emphasize the need to continue the study of the biography of Mamed Khan Tekinsky, namely his Turkmen period, in order to fully present the biography and biography of Mamed Khan Tekinsky – a lawyer, statesman, an outstanding diplomat of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic – the first state of the Turkic peoples of the European type.
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Jeifets, Victor. "From Okhotny ryad to East River: life and destiny of the revolutionary Jose Antonio Mayobre." Latinskaia Amerika, no. 3 (2023): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s0044748x0024416-6.
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The article, written on the basis of previously unpublished archival documents, memoirs, compared with scientific literature, examines the biography of the outstanding Venezuelan economist and politician Jose Antonio Mayobre. His life was filled with bright events: participation in the activities of the Communist Party of Venezuela, the work in such so international organizations like the Comintern, the International Monetary Fund, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America, the UN, in the Government of Venezuela and as a diplomat. The authors compare the turns in Mayobre’s life with the stages of world and Venezuelan history.
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Kiyanskaya, Oksana. "Russian Beliza: to the Biography of Anna Muravyeva-Apostol." ISTORIYA 12, no. 6 (104) (2021): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840016036-8.
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The object of research is the history of the life and literary activity of Anna Semyonovna Murav’eva-Apostol, the mother of the three Decembrists: Mathew, Sergey and Hippolyte. First of all, the author analyzes her translation of the French novel “Le modèle des mères, ou mémoires de madame la marquise de Bezire” (“The Example to Mothers, or the Adventures of the marquise de Bezire”), determines the role of this novel in the biography of the translator. The author of the article describes Anna Murav’eva-Apostols’ relationship with her husband, who was a diplomat and a famous writer. The author also analyzes the Parisian period of her life, when she was left in a country hostile to Russia without a husband and with seven children. The article concludes about the extent of Anna Murav’eva-Apostol's influence on her children.
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Shatokhina-Mordvintseva, Galina. "Karl Vladimirovich Knorring (?—1871), Russian Diplomat: Some Amendments to Track Records." ISTORIYA 13, no. 9 (119) (2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840022917-7.
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Based on data from the track record of Karl Vladimirovich Knorring, a russian diplomat, envoy to The Hague, stored in the depository of the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire, the article presents in chronological order all his personnel appointments, reconstructed biography extended by information about family ties of representatives of the Knorring family, originating from Estland (Estlyandskaya guberniya), and about their hereditary possessions in the Ostsee region. On the basis of available genealogical books and genealogical sites, biographical dictionaries, entries in track records the author attempted to clarify the date of birth of Karl Vl. Knorring, by analyzing the current variability in this matter and pointing out obvious inconsistencies.
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Holt, P. M. "Mamluk-Frankish diplomatic relations in the reign of Qalāwūn (678–89/1279–90)." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 121, no. 2 (April 1989): 278–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0035869x00109244.
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Two important contemporary authors provide primary sources for the history of Qalāwūn's reign. The first of these, Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʽAbd al-Ẓahir, had been the head of Baybars's chancery, and continued to hold office, possibly until his death in 692/1293. He was, however, overtaken during his lifetime by his son, Fatḥ al-Dīn, whom Qalāwūn appointed to the new post of confidential secretary (kātib al-sirr). Muḥyī al-Dīn was the author of Baybars's official biography, a Rawḍ al-zāhirfisirat al-Malik al-Ẓāhir – indeed one might say that he ghosted the memoirs recounted to him by the sultan. In due course he also produced the official biography of Qalāwūn, Tashrlf al-ayyām wa 'l-'uṣūr fi sīrat al-Malik al-Manṣūr, of which unfortunately only the latter part, beginning with the year 680/1281–82, is now extant. A great deal of the value of this work lies in the state papers it transmits. These include the texts of truces with the Templars, Acre, Lesser Armenia, and the Lady Margaret of Tyre, as well as treaties (also formally truces in Islamic international law) with Aragon and Genoa.
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Ferris, John. "Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography, by B.J.C. McKercherEsme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography, by B.J.C. McKercher. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiv, 370 pp., $59.50 U.S." Canadian Journal of History 25, no. 3 (December 1990): 429–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjh.25.3.429.
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Ladynin, Ivan. "Two dates from Vladimir Golenishchev’s biography." St. Tikhons' University Review 110 (February 28, 2023): 125–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturii2023110.125-135.
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The article is intended to refine the dates of two important episodes in the biography of the outstanding Russian Egyptologist Vladimir Golenishchev (1856-1947), the collector of antiquities that laid the cornerstone for the Egyptian department of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Russian Egyptologists were sure that Golenishchev acquired the first object of his collection at the age of 14; this came to be known from the Soviet Egyptologist and Orientalist Vassiliy Struve, who had once heard it from Golenishchev himself. However, the file-cabinet of Golenishchev’s collection preserves a card for the ushebti of Qeref-en-Ptah bearing a mark that this was the first object that Golenishchev possessed given to him by the ambassador of Greece at St. Petersburg Dimitrios Buduris. As the diplomat started his mission at St. Petersburg in August 1871, he could not make this present before Golenishchev was at least 15 years old. There is also an uncertainty about the time of Golenishchev’s purchasing three important papyri: The Travel of Wenamun to Byblos, the Golenishchev Onomasticon and a literary letter (Pushkin Museum 1,1b 127). Golenishchev dated this purchase to the autumn of 1891 in his publications of 1897 and 1899, but the unpublished account of his travel to Egypt in 1890-1891 (now at the Archives of Vladimir Golenishchev at Paris) makes it perfectly clear that this took place in November and December of 1890. Symptomatically both false dates go back to Golenishchev’s statements. While the former one could be due to a real failure of memory or to the desire to bring the start of his collection closer to his childhood, the latter can be explained by an urge to disguise somehow the circumstances of his purchase by falsifying its date.
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Berezin, Sergii. "New Archival Materials Regards the “Odessa Periods” in the Biography of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian State (Hetmanate) G.E. Afanas’ev (1848-1925)." Mìžnarodnì zv’âzki Ukraïni: naukovì pošuki ì znahìdki, no. 26 (November 27, 2017): 394–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/mzu2017.26.394.
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The article is based on archival materials from the collections of the State Archives of Odessa Region, Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Kiev) and the Russian State Library (Moscow). These materials provide documental confirmation of the little-known facts of the biography of George Afanas`ev, the famous historian and educator, journalist, banker and diplomat, public and state figure. The represented source base allows to refine and supplement the information from the historiography about the life and work of Afanas`ev in the period of his stay in Odessa and activity in the Novorossiysky University. Some of these documents are published and introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.
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Madrona, Severo C. "The Diplomat-Scholar: A Biography of Leon Ma. Guerrero by Erwin S. Fernandez." Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 66, no. 1 (2018): 119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phs.2018.0011.
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Iryana, Wahyu, Nina Herlina Lubis, and Kunto Sofianto. "Perjuangan M.A.Sentot dalam Perang Mempertahankan Kemerdekaan di Indramayu (1945-1949)." Patanjala : Jurnal Penelitian Sejarah dan Budaya 10, no. 2 (September 10, 2018): 367. http://dx.doi.org/10.30959/patanjala.v10i2.396.
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Perang mempertahankan negara Indonesia pasca Proklamasi Kemerdekaan terjadi di beberapa daerah, termasuk perjuangan pasukan setan Muhammad Asmat Sentot di daerah Indramayu, Jawa Barat. Perlu ditekankan bahwa proses diplomasi tidak bisa dilepaskan dengan aktivitas militer. Adapun permasalahan yang diangkat dalam penelitian adalah mengenai bagaimana biografi Sentot sebagai pemimpin perjuangan perang fisik di Indramayu (1945-1949)? Bagaimana perjuangan pasukan setan merah yang dipimpin oleh Sentot dalam mempertahankan kemerdekaan di daerah Indramayu Provinsi Jawa Barat. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui biografi Sentot dan untuk memahami nilai-nilai heroik perjuangan Muhammad As’ad Sentot melawan Agresi Militer Belanda dalam mempertahankan wilayah Indramayu. Tulisan ini menggunakan metode penelitian sejarah (heuristik, kritik, interpretasi, historiografi). Sedangkan teori yang digunakan adalah teori kausalitas. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan Sentot merupakan tokoh sentral dalam peristiwa perang fisik untuk mempertahankan kemerdekaan di wilayah Indramayu, Jawa Barat. Ia mempunyai peranan penting untuk membangkitkan serta mengobarkan keberanian rakyat Indramayu melawan Belanda pada masa perang fisik (1945-1949).The war defended the post-independence Indonesian State of Independence in several areas, including the struggle of the red-blooded forces of Muhammad Asmat Sentot in the Indramayu area of West Java. It should be emphasized that the diplomacy process can not be separated by military activity. The problem raised in the research is about how the biography of Sentot as the leader of the physical war struggle in Indramayu (1945-1949)? How is the struggle of red demon troops led by Sentot in maintaining independence in Indramayu area of West Java Province? This study aims to determine the biography of Sentot and to understand the heroic values of Muhammad As'ad Sentot struggle against Dutch Military Aggression in defending the Indramayu region. This paper uses historical research methods (heuristics, criticism, interpretation, historiography). While the theory used is the theory of causality. The result of this research is that Sentot is a central figure in the event of physical war to defend the independence in Indramayu, West Java. He has an important role to raise and brave the people of Indramayu against the Dutch during the period of the physical war (1945-1949).
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Vanderlippe, John M. "METIN HEPER, İsmet İnönü: The Making of a Turkish Statesman, Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998). Pp. 280." International Journal of Middle East Studies 32, no. 4 (November 2000): 554–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743800002816.
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İsmet İnönü had one of the longest public careers of any statesman of the 20th century, serving as soldier, diplomat, revolutionary, prime minister, president, and party leader in a career that spanned eight decades, from the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 to his retirement from politics, at age 88, a year before his death in 1973. Moreover, for most of his career, İnönü was at the very center of the events and decisions that shaped the Turkish Republic and its involvement in regional and global affairs. But as Metin Heper points out in his eloquent study of İnönü's career, this is a “neglected statesman.” One of the major lacunae of Western studies of modern Turkish history has been an English-language biography of İ smet İnönü. Heper's study is not a biography as such, but it has three main goals: to cover İnönü's entire career; to explore how his self-education and personality shaped his views on the state and democracy, and thus his policies; and to present a picture of İnönü free of the deification or vilification that marks much of the existing scholarship (p. ix).
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Phillips, Victoria. "“Velvet Steel” Ministers for God and America: Eleanor Lansing Dulles and the Nineteenth-Century Legacy of Christianity and Nationalism." Religions 13, no. 7 (June 29, 2022): 606. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13070606.
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The political impact of Dr. Eleanor Lansing Dulles has not been assessed in her capacity as a power broker who brought her theological understandings to Cold War United States policy. The deep influence of both her brothers—Allen, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and John Foster, Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower—on global affairs and diplomacy has been the topic of myriad studies. Works draw extensively on family biography, noting that both “nature and nurture” brought religion to US foreign policy. Including Dr. Dulles in the analysis provides nuance and complexity to definitions of Christian nationalism and underscores the legacy of both missionaries and religious thought in US foreign relations during the early Cold War. Contextualizing religiosity through a study of gender and the Dulles family legacy of female missionaries into the Cold War narrative builds upon the existing literature of the Dulles family, religion, and Cold War diplomacy to challenge concepts such as Christian internationalism, Christian nationalism, and Left–Right binaries. Diplomacy is revealed as her form of Christian missionary work in the secular sphere. Eleanor Lansing Dulles became a missionary not for a religion, but for a nation.
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Stanivuković, Maja, and Sanja Đajić. "Hommage to an agent before international courts and tribunals: Professor dr. Slavko Stojković." Revija Kopaonicke skole prirodnog prava 2, no. 2 (2020): 197–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/rkspp2002197s.
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This paper pays tribute to life and work of professor Dr. Slavko Stojković, a diplomat and state agent of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It is divided into five parts - introduction, short biography and three fields of his work - representation in international arbitral and judicial proceedings, where he made his principal achievements, diplomacy, and finally, legal writing, in which he also left a mark. The part on representation briefly mentions the cases Losinger (1935) and Pajzs, Csaky, Esterhazy (1935) before the Permanent Court of International Justice in which he acted as the state agent of Yugoslavia, the pathological arbitration S.E.E.E. v. Yugoslavia in which he was involved in various ways, and his role as the state agent of Yugoslavia before the German-Yugoslav and Hungaro-Yugoslav Mixed Arbitral Tribunals. Reference is made to sources that cover these cases in more detail. His diplomatic activity includes participation in the sessions of the League of Nations, and in particular his role in advocating the adoption of the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Terrorism (1937), as well as his participation in negotiating with the Halyard Mission (1944) and with the French Government (1950). Among his legal writings, the most remarkable are his doctoral thesis De l'autorité de la sentence arbitrale en droit international public obtained at the Sorbonne in 1924 under the presidency of Antoine Pillet, and often cited even in modern times, his article on Mixed Arbitral Tribunals (1931) published in French, and his article on the "Possibility of Existence of International Arbitration Independent of National Laws" (1966) anticipating the appearance of investment arbitration. The authors conclude that Dr. Slavko Stojković was one of the most eminent lawyers of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the forefather of arbitration law in Yugoslavia and Serbia.
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Imamutdinova, A. M. "The History of International Relations in the Legacy of the Soviet Historian Vladimir M. Khvostov (1905–1972)." Russia & World: Sc. Dialogue, no. 3 (September 13, 2023): 210–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.53658/rw2022-3-3(9)-210-231.
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In the article, based on a large number of archival documents, some of which were first put into scientific circulation, the research activities and problems of scientific research by V.M.Khvostov are considered. The author analyzed two main directions in the work of the scientist: the history of diplomacy and international relations; problems of general and national history (mainly the events of world wars). The contribution of V.M.Khvostov to the study of this issue is determined, his creative biography is considered as one of the models of the life and career of a scientist in the Soviet political and historiographic space.
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Pirbhai, M. Reza. "‘From Purdah to Parliament’." Hawwa 14, no. 3 (December 5, 2016): 278–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341312.
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Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah was a Pakistani author, politician, diplomat and social-activist whose life bridges the late colonial and post-colonial phases of South Asian history. Her biography illustrates the discursive pressures shaping the lives of upper and intermediate class men and women of her generation, particularly as manifested in the unquestioned tropes of modernization theory. However, the same life reveals that her notion of the tradition-modernity dichotomy does not extend to the equation of Islam with tradition. The secular-religious divide, in fact, does not feature in her thought or activism at all. The latter activism also problematizes the assumption that Muslim women, any more of less than non-Muslims, are marginal or peripheral players in the history of the twentieth century.
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Martin, Russell E. "“The Prayers of the Sinful Prince Semën Shakhovskoi”." Canadian-American Slavic Studies 56, no. 4 (November 4, 2022): 498–522. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/22102396-05604013.
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Abstract Prince Semën Ivanovich Shakhovskoi has long been recognized as a significant figure in early seventeenth-century Russia, mostly for his writings in a range of genres (historical tales, letters, theological treatises, liturgical services, and prayers). He has not, however, attracted the level of attention from scholars that his works deserve. This study examines one subset of his corpus, his prayers, for traces of biography and individuality of this important author. It argues that Shakhovskoi’s prayers are both modeled on Orthodox textual traditions and customized to reflect the events and hardships in his life. The study also shows that Shakhovskoi – a warrior and diplomat – was well-versed in biblical and Church sources, making him a rare figure in the intellectual history of Muscovy: a true secular intellectual.
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Mirzekhanov, Velikhan. "The Path of Historian’s Life: to the 90th Anniversary of Academician Alexander Chubaryan." ISTORIYA 12, no. 11 (109) (2021): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840017587-4.
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The article is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the eminent Russian historian and science manager, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander O. Chubaryan. The article provides overview of the scholar’s scientific activities against a broad historical background, reveals the main episodes of his intellectual biography. The article analyzes the main research directions of Alexander Chubaryan, characterizes his activities as a science manager, in particular as a director of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Serious attention is paid to the role of Alexander Chubaryan in establishing international relations of the Institute, the development of science diplomacy, strengthening contacts with foreign colleagues and organizations.
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M. Nadeem Kutb, Afraa. "A Memoir of London: A Reading on Ghazi AlQosaibi’s Bye-Bye London and Anna Quindlen’s Imagined London." Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies 8, no. 2 (May 24, 2024): 155–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol8no2.11.
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This paper aims to present impressions of London “indisputably the capital of literature”, by two culturally diverse novelists and their works: the first is the Saudi diplomat, novelist, and poet Dr. Gazi AlQosaibi’s (1940-2010) Bye-Bye London (2002) and the American renowned Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Qindlen’s (1953) Imagined London (2004). The researcher used a textual analysis approach to analyze the novels. This study is an add-value to the body of knowledge by contributing to the literature of A Memoir of London and Imagined London. It addresses the manifold concept and diverse determinations of images related to the identity of London. In addition, it examines the different representations that reflect the different circumstances, defined by time and place in London. A thorough reading of both works will not only provide many insights about London, the city, but also a literary and intellectual biography of the writers themselves. Thus, a reading of their works, comparing, and contrasting them will be ostensible to further highlight their recollections, reminisces, and experiences of “the capital of the world”. The results showed that Bye, Bye London, and Imagined London are examples of honor to a metropolitan that includes one of the greatest fictional and ancient pasts. These novellas are not as thorough as Peter Ackroyd’s London: a Biography (2001) which Quindlen positions in the volume.
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Malashevskaya, Maria. "Sato Masaru’s Views on the Russian-Japanese Relations in the 1990s – 2000s Withing the Context of His Professional Biography." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija, no. 4 (August 2021): 160–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2021.4.14.
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Introduction. Paper examines the views on politics and politicians of a former diplomat, member of the Japanese MOFA “Russian school”, popular political analyst, author of more than 200 books and articles on politics, politicians and political thought, Sato Masaru. Methods and Materials. The objective of this study is to extract the most relevant and illustrative ideas about politics and political behavior, expressed by a former diplomat, which relate to the essential characteristics and contents of the Russian-Japanese negotiations in the 1990s. The data sources for our analysis are the memoirs by Sato Masaru and his non-fiction texts (“The Self-Destructing Empire”, “The Art of Negotiating”, “State, God and Marxism”, “Russian-Japanese Diplomatic Relations: Northern Territories and Intelligence”). Analysis. Sato Masaru expresses uncommon views on Japanese and Russian political culture during the period of the rise of the Russian-Japanese relations in Post-Cold War era, which coincided with the “Lost Decade” depression in Japan in the 1990s and lasted for three decades. Moreover, Sato’s views illustrate the pragmatic approaches of the Japanese diplomatic machine towards the dialogue with Russia, while he obtained his information by observing members of elite groups of politicians in Moscow and Tokyo. In order to extract and study Sato’s most representative ideas, we have divided our text into four parts: (1) Sato Masaru’s professional biography, (2) his views on the structure of Russian and Japanese elite groups in relation to Sato’s diplomatic activities; (3) his assessment of the Putin-Abe dialogue in the context of the international situation. Results. The specific Sato’s views concerning Russian-Japanese relations in the Post-Cold War decades consist in (1) similarities between Russian and Japanese political cultures within the structure and behavior of elites, which are beneficial for a fruitful interstate dialogue; (2) assessment of the Putin-Abe ties in the 2010s taking into account Sato’s diplomatic experience in the 1990s and a panoramic view of international affairs under the Ukrainian crisis and sanctions during the 2010s.
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范, 茸. "The Timurid Regions and Moghulistan through the Eyes of a Ming Diplomat: An Annotated Translation of the Xiyu fanguo zhi and Selected Poems by Chen Cheng (1415)." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 66, no. 7 (November 3, 2023): 795–884. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341607.
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Abstract The article investigates the fifteenth-century Ming diplomat Chen Cheng’s travel accounts by situating them against the backdrop of Islamic and Mongol history. The first part of the article presents Chen Cheng’s travels and his reports in the context of Ming-Timurid relations and comprehensively studies the existing editions of Chen’s writings. The second part of the article provides a complete, critical, and annotated translation of Chen’s travel narrative, the Xiyu fanguo zhi, and a selection of his poems that describe the Timurid and eastern Chaghatayid regions through which the ambassador traveled. The translation is based on the text from Chen’s personal literary collection, the Chen Zhushan wenji, which has not yet been adequately utilized in English scholarship. Incorporating information from contemporary sources, the annotated translation contextualizes Chen’s accounts in Islamic history of Western and Central Asia. Finally, the article supplements the translation with a biography of Chen Cheng and information extracted from his itinerary.
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Sobczak, Michael. "Karl August Varnhagen von Ense – „szara eminencja” dziewiętnastowiecznej niemieckiej publicystyki politycznej." Studia Litteraria 15, no. 4 (2020): 275–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843933st.20.023.12544.
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Karl August Varnhagen von Ense – an “éminence grise” of German Political Journalism in the 19th Century Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (1785–1858) was a German diplomat, biographer and archivist-collector. He worked as a tutor in the homes of several families of the wealthy Jewish bourgeoisie. This allowed him to get in touch with prominent poets and writers of romanticism, such as Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Adelbert von Chamisso, Justinus Kerner and Ludwig Uhland. During the Napoleonic Wars Varnhagen served in Austrian and Russian army. 1814 he married Rahel Levin, a Jewish writer who hosted one of the most prominent German literary salons in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Their home in Berlin became the meeting-place of high civil servants, philosophers, writers and artists. Although Varnhagen developed a reputation as an critical writer and journalist, he is most famous as a biographer and archivist-collector. The article investigates Varnhagen’s activities as a journalist and demonstrates journalism as an unknown and unexplored but significant and valuable aspekt of his work, which is substantial in volume.
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Smyrnov, I., O. Lyubitseva, and Zh Cui. "OLENA STEPANIV – USS AND UGA OFFICER, UKRAINIAN DIPLOMAT, GEOGRAPHER, GEOLOGIST." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Geography, no. 78-79 (2021): 19–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2721.2021.78-79.3.
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Peculiarities of life, military, the diplomatic activity of O. I. Stepaniv, PhD in Geography, as well as her scientific achievements as a Ukrainian geographer and geologist, are revealed. The biography of O. I. Stepaniv (1892–1963) absorbed all the complexities of the twentieth century. A woman who aspired to comprehend science and entered the Faculty of Philosophy of Lviv University devoted her youth to the struggle for independence of Ukraine. As an extraordinary person, she achieved success in military affairs even in these difficult times – she became an officer in the armies of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and the Ukrainian Galician Army; carried out significant public work to establish the Republic of Western Ukraine and became its diplomatic representative. At the same time, she continued her studies, was able to write and defend a dissertation in Vienna and obtain a doctor degree (PhD) in history and geography. From 1921 until her arrest for “anti-Soviet” activities in 1949, O. I. Stepaniv taught and conducted scientific work, in particular, on economic and social geography. It is noted that her works on the geography of transport can be considered as “forerunners” of geologistics, which emerged as a direction of geographical research only at the beginning of the XXI century. It is proved that O.I. Stepaniv views on the geopolitical, transport-geographical position of the Ukrainian lands were much ahead of the current level of comprehension of geographical material and still need their study. The authors emphasize that her transport and geographical works, in particular, dedicated to the city of Lviv (1943), are geologistical in their approach and in many respects “resonate” with the modern vision of the geopolitical and geologistical potential of Ukraine as an independent Europian state. The authors give an example of a modern EU project in the field of transport logistics “Three Seas Initiative”, aimed at developing the transport network of the Baltic-Adriatic-Black Seas region, to which Ukraine is invited as a strategically important partner (although it is not yet a full member of the EU).