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Pendant les trente-sept ans qui séparent les guerres de Religion et les conflits généralisés du « siècle de fer » ou, en d'autres termes, une Chrétienté dominée par des questions eschatologiques et l'Europe issue des paix de Westphalie, les deux principales puissances catholiques sont en paix. Cette période est un terrain d'étude privilégié pour l'histoire des relations diplomatiques. Efficace et aguerrie, la diplomatie de la monarchie ibérique impose l'image de la puissance royale. Façonnée par les nouvelles formes de gouvernement qui apparaissent alors, elle préfigure la diplomatie moderne et son envers inséparable, l'espionnage. Le monarque hispanique entretient avec le Roi Très-Chrétien et ses sujets des relations ambiguës, exploitant les mécontentements qui se font jour au nord des Pyrénées. Par l'intermédiaire de ses « honorables ambassadeurs », il joue de son charisme religieux, hérité de ses aïeux, qui s'étend largement au-delà des limites de la Péninsule grâce à l'argent d'Amérique. L'impact de cette action se mesure au nombre des « divins espions » ralliés à la cause de l'Espagne et dont la fidélité, après la rupture avec leur souverain, s'adresse désormais à la personne même du roi d'Espagne.

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'In August 1855, sixteen-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost forty years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton. When he retired he returned to England and received a knighthood. He died in 1898. Throughout his adult life, Alabaster kept diaries. In the first four volumes of these diaries, collected here by Benjamin Penny, the teenage Alabaster recorded his thoughts and observations, told himself anecdotes, and exploded in outbursts of anger and frustration. He was young and enthusiastic, and the everyday sights, sounds and smells of Hong Kong were novel to him. He describes how the Chinese people around him ironed clothes, dried flour and threshed rice; how they gambled, prepared their food and made bean curd; and what opera, new year festivities and the birthday of the Heavenly Empress were like. Like many a young Victorian, he was also a keen observer of natural history, fascinated by fireflies and ants, corals and sea slugs, and the volcanic origins of the landscape. Alabaster's diaries are a unique, vibrant and riveting record of life in the young British colony on the cusp of the Second Opium War. With A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong, Penny sheds new light on the history of the region.' - From publisher website.

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The safety of diplomats has animated recent public and political debates. As diplomatic personnel are increasingly targeted by terrorism and political violence while overseas, sending states are augmenting host nations' security measures with their own. Protective arrangements range from deploying military, police, and private security guards to relocating embassies to suburban compounds. Yet, reinforced security may also hamper effective diplomacy and international relations. Scholars and practitioners from around the world bring to light a large body of empirical information available for the first time in Diplomatic Security. This book explores the global contexts and consequences of keeping embassies and their personnel safe. The essays in this volume offer case studies that illustrate the different arrangements in the U.S., China, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Israel, and Russia. Considering the historical and legal contexts, authors examine how states protect their diplomats abroad, what drives changes in existing protective arrangements, and how such measures affect the safety of diplomats and the institution of diplomacy. Diplomatic Security not only reveals how a wide variety of states handle security needs but also illuminates the broader theoretical and policy implications for the study of diplomacy and security alike.

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