Diplomacy with a Difference: The Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1880-2006

By Lorna Lloyd

This book illuminates two familiar phenomena - diplomacy and the Commonwealth - from a new and unfamiliar angle: the atypical way in which the Commonwealth's members came to, and continue to, engage in official relations with each other. This innovative and wide-ranging study is based on archival material from four states, interviews and correspondence with diplomats, and a wide range of secondary sources. It shows how members of an empire found it necessary to engage in diplomacy and, in so doing, created a singular, and often remarkably intimate, diplomatic system. The result is a fascinating, multidisciplinary exploration of the evolving Commonwealth and the way in which its 53 members and Ireland conduct diplomacy with one another, and in so doing have contributed a distinctive terminology to the diplomatic lexicon.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004154973
• ISBN13: 9789004154971
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.7"