Embassies in Crisis

Introduction: Embassies in Crisis: Diplomacy, Communities, and Conflicts; 1. The British Embassy in Paris and the Fall of France; 2. ‘Ambassador Brawls with Minister’: Emotions and Internal and External Crisis at the French Embassy to the Holy See; 3. Keeping the Flag Flying: John Reeves and the British Consulate in Macao, 1941-45; 4. Austrian Diplomatic Missions in Crisis: From 1938 to the Cold War; 5. The Mindszenty Affair and the United States Embassy in Budapest; 6. British High Commissioners in India and Pakistan and the Kashmir Conflict, 1947-49; 7. Crisis at the Creation: the Establishment of the First US Embassy in Israel, 1947-1949; 8. The U.S. Embassy in Saigon and the Dien Bien Phu Crisis, 1954; 9. Hook, Line and Sinker: The British Embassy in Cairo and Egypt’s "Expulsion of Soviet Advisers," 1972; 10. Eyes Off the Prize? The British Embassy in Tehran, 1976-79; 11. Crisis response in a 21st century British Embassy: Ukraine 2013/14; 12. Embassies Responding to Crisis: A Practitioner’s Perspective