The Contemporary Embassy Paths to Diplomatic Excellence [Hardcover]

This innovative study considers why embassies today are especially relevant to the international system, examining the new representation options and global diplomacy techniques in an information age. Rana uniquely presents perspectives from developing states and analyses how embassies can improve their modes of function.Preface Introduction 1. The Context 2. Old & New 3. Domestic Arena 4. Operation: Managing Amidst Complexity 5. Representation Formats 6. The Future

Lively, shrewd, bursting with reforming ideas, and refreshingly informed by a vast knowledge of current diplomatic practice in Asia and Africa as well as in the West, this is a particularly valuable new book [...] The embassy, Kishan S. Rana argues persuasively, is actually 'in renaissance.' - G. R. Berridge, Emeritus Professor of International Politics, University of Leicester, UK

The Contemporary Embassy is by far the best and most comprehensive study now available of the way nations practice diplomacy abroad. It burnishes Ambassador Rana's well-established credentials as an outstanding analyst of present-day diplomatic process. I plan to use it on my course in diplomacy. - Howard B. Schaffer, Georgetown University, USA and Former U.S. Ambassador

Kishan S. Rana is Professor Emeritus at the DiploFoundation, Malta and Geneva. He previously worked for the Indian Foreign Service (1960-1995), serving as Ambassador or High Commissioner to Algeria, Czechoslovakia, Kenya, Mauritius, and Germany.