Embassies in Crisis
Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations
In October, Routledge published Embassies in Crisis. Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations. Dr Lorena De Vita (History of International Relations) contributed a chapter to this new publication.
Embassies are integral to international diplomacy, their staff instrumental to inter-governmental dialogue, strategic partnerships, trading relationships and cultural exchange. But Embassies are also discreet political spaces. Notionally sovereign territory ‘immune’ from local jurisdiction, in moments of crisis Embassies have often been targets of protest and sites of confrontation.
Political crisis
It is this aspect of Embassy experience that this collection of essays explores and Embassies in Crisis revisits flashpoints in the recent lives of Embassies overseas at times of acute political crisis.
- Title: Embassies in Crisis. Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations
- Contribution: Lorena De Vita
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISBN: 9780815357889