Relationships are often seen as the grease in the wheels of international affairs, but they exist in a system in which change in leadership is common. This research explores how important external relationships are built and maintained when a leader transitions into a new role in international affairs. The research builds on literature in interpersonal relations, interorganizational relations, international relations, social capital, and leadership transitions. It is an exploratory study employing interviews, surveys, and archival data. The data analysis includes deductive pattern-matching based on propositions as well as an inductive approach. The results indicate that relationship building patterns in this context are similar to but also expand patterns expected based on existing literature. The results highlight important areas for individuals and organizations to consider in the context of leadership transitions in international affairs, such as how to best identify instrumental relationships, leverage existing relationships, and encourage relationship generosity rather than relationship hoarding.

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The thesis discusses Czechoslovak-Iranian relationships during 1953-1979. Several thematically organized chapters deal with policy and diplomatic relations after the fall of Mosaddeq in 1953, the support of Tudeh party, cultural relations and intelligence activities of above mentioned countries. Relationships between them had been cooled after the beginning of the communist era in Czechoslovakia and it got worse after the Mosaddeq overthrow - mostly due to Czechoslovakian support of persecuted Iranian Tudeh party. However, due to Czechoslovakian business opportunities in Iran, the relations from the 1960 improved and led to the state visits in the 1970. Nevertheless, as well as with other countries, nearly all dealings were interrupted after the Islamic revolution in 1979. The thesis is primarily based on archive sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The National Archive, and The Security Forces Archive as well as on a professional literature. This diploma thesis brings new historical evidence in the area of Czechoslovak-Iranian relationships through processing, for the time being, almost unexplored topic of Czechoslovakian diplomacy and relations with Iran.

The thesis covers the privileges and immunities provided to diplomatic agents in order to facilitate the performance of their functions. The main source of law is the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations which has been signed at the end of the Vienna Conference on 18th April 1961 and remained unchanged even after 50 years in force. It reflected the previous codification attempts as well as the existing practice of the contractual states and established rules that together with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations represent the basis in the field of diplomatic and consular law. The aim of the thesis is to describe particular privileges and immunities of the diplomatic agents, evaluate their applicability on the current diplomatic practice and consider whether the Vienna Convention represents a suitable regulation of the modern diplomatic relations. Examining both the practice of national courts and the International Court of Justice it is shown how the practice has changed over the past 50 years. The thesis covers the limits of such privileges and immunities, points out the possibilities of their abuse and presents examples of conflicts that arise in the current diplomatic practice. The thesis first deals with theoretical issues - it provides definitions of the diplomatic privileges and...

The thesis describes privileges and immunities provided to offices of diplomatic missions in order to facilitate carrying out international relations. The key legal document regulating diplomatic privileges and immunities is the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations which commemorated 50 years of its existence this year - since it was signed on 18 April 1961 after the Vienna Conference. The aim of the thesis is to describe the contents of the individual privileges and immunities and to consider to which extent the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations represents a suitable legal instrument even for the needs of the today's practice of diplomatic relations. First the thesis deals with general issues related to ensuring diplomatic privileges and immunities, theories which justify their necessity and selected provisions of the Vienna Convention. This is followed by an analysis of the individual privileges and immunities of a diplomatic mission - the right to display a flag, the inviolability of mission premises, the inviolability of mission archives and documents, tax privileges and the freedom of communication.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar as relações entre o governo brasileiro e a Guerra Civil Espanhola. A partir da sublevação militar de 17 de julho de 1936, o cenário interno do estado espanhol tornou-se o epicentro do embate entre as forças conservadoras e a diversidade de grupos políticos de esquerda. Desde os seus primeiros momentos, a guerra civil transbordou as fronteiras espanholas e europeias. Se por um lado houve o envolvimento direto e indireto de países europeus, por outro, também houve substancial importância nas Américas. Assim, esta tese pretende desenvolver uma abordagem dos papéis existentes entre os órgãos públicos e privados relacionados ao governo Vargas e os grupos envolvidos na Guerra Civil Espanhola, sobretudo aqueles pertencentes aos militares sob o controle de Francisco Franco. As ações de órgãos como o Ministério de Relações Exteriores e do Departamento Nacional do Café, tiveram papel preponderante em um apoio oficioso aos rebelados, enquanto que as representações diplomáticas da Segunda República foram paulatinamente relegadas a uma situação marginal. / The aim of this research is to analyze the relations between the Brazilian government and the Spanish Civil War. From the military uprising of 1936 July 17th, the domestic scenery of Spanish State became the epicenter of a struggle between conservative forces and the diversity of left political groups. Since its first moments, the civil war crossed the Spanish and European borders. If, on the one hand, there was a direct and indirect involvement of the European countries, on the other hand, there was also a substantial significance in the Americas. Thus, this thesis intends to develop an approach between the roles of public and private organizations of Vargas government and the related groups of the Spanish Civil War, mainly those ones under the General Francisco Francos control. The attitudes of public bodies as the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Coffee Department, it had a key role to an unofficial support to the insurgents, meanwhile, the diplomatic representations of Spanish Second Republic were gradually sent to a marginal condition.

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O período que vai da segunda metade do século XVIII ao primeiro quartel do século XIX foi marcado por grandes transformações políticas e econômicas na Europa e no mundo Ocidental. O aumento populacional, bem como as transformações tecnológicas que causaram a Revolução Industrial e que advieram dela e a crise do Antigo Regime e do Antigo Sistema Colonial foram fatores estruturais que causaram importantes mudanças. Além disso, houveram conflitos bélicos e reconfiguração de alianças e rotas comerciais. As relações entre Portugal, Brasil e Estados Unidos foram profundamente influenciadas por esse panorama. O estabelecimento das relações comerciais e diplomáticas entre Portugal e Estados Unidos, sua consolidação ao longo dos primeiros anos do século XIX e as mudanças advindas da transferência da corte para o Brasil são analisados através de cartas e ofícios diplomáticos e da composição e saldo do comércio externo dos três países. / The period from the second half of the eighteenth century to the first quarter of the nineteenth century was marked by great political and economic changes in Europe and the Occident. The population growth as well as the technological changes that caused the Industrial Revolution and result from it, and the crisis of the Ancien Régime and of the Old Colonial System were structural factors that have caused major changes. Furthermore, the period went through military conflicts and reconfiguration of alliances and trade routes. The Relations between Portugal, Brazil and the United States were deeply influenced by this scenario. The establishment of trade and diplomatic relations between Portugal and the United States, its consolidation during the early years of the nineteenth century and changes arising from the transfer of the court to Brazil are to be analyzed through diplomatic letters and official documents and the composition and balance of foreign trade of the three countries.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-08-31Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:30:10Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 canaveze_r_me_assis.pdf: 733103 bytes, checksum: db56b486803146503c77f0662341e3e1 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / A presente dissertação visa a analisar as relações diplomáticas do Império do Brasil em meio à Guerra do Pacífico (1879-1883). Essa guerra foi motivada pela disputa de recursos minerais no deserto do Atacama e envolveu o Chile contra a Aliança de Peru e Bolívia. No caso do Brasil, sua participação restringiu-se ao campo diplomático, ainda que o Chile tenha buscado firmar uma aliança estratégica junto ao Império. Através dos Ofícios da Legação Imperial do Brasil no Chile, analisamos o posicionamento da diplomacia brasileira em meio à guerra e sua implicação no cenário sul-americano. Além disso, consultamos dois periódicos brasileiros, o Província de São Paulo e o Jornal do Comércio, com o objetivo de compreender a repercussão do conflito na imprensa do país, bem como o posicionamento de cada periódico na questão do Pacífico / The present dissertation aims to analyze the diplomatic relations of the Empire of Brazil in the midst of the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). This war was motivated by the dispute of mineral resources in the Atacama Desert and it has involved Chile against the Alliance of Peru and Bolivia. In the case of Brazil, its participation has restricted to the diplomatic area, even though Chile has tried to establish a strategic alliance with the Empire. Through the Trades of Imperial Legation of Brazil in Chile, we have analyzed the positioning of the Brazilian diplomacy in the midst of the war and its implication in the South-American scene. Besides this, we have consulted two Brazilian newspapers, Província de São Paulo (“The Province of São Paulo”) and Jornal do Comércio (“Journal of Commerce”), with the objective of comprehending the repercussion of the conflict in the press of the country, and also the positioning of each newspaper in the question of the Pacific