Alcune lettere inedite della legazione di Baldassarre Carducci alla corte di Francesco I (1529-1530) by Alessandro Monti

“…During the same period the florentine ambassador Baldassarre Carducci was engaged in a diplomatic mission in France, at the court of Francis Ist. …”
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Franki Raffles, photographe engagée : la photographie féministe en Écosse dans les années 1980 et 1990 by Marine Benoit-Blain

“…A passionate, complex and politically committed figure, Raffles became the ambassador for the practice of photography as a tool for struggle and protest, and her work was militant and feminist.…”
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Botanical catalogue of the Mendoza herbarium in the Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial by Carlos Aedo, Mauricio Velayos

“…It was likely acquired from an intermediary or unknown botanist during the period when its owner was imperial ambassador in Venice and Rome, between 1539 and 1554, and that the plants it contains are of Italian origin. …”
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Truth, Truth-telling and Gender in Politics: The ”Hillary” Experience by C. Akça Ataç

“…Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, which coincided with Wonder Woman’s new post as the United Nations ambassador, has been the closest moment for this goal to be achieved. …”
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The Question of Diplomatic Mission of Czechoslovakia in Lithuania in 1921-1939 by Dalia Bukelevičiūtė

“…The embassy was opened only formally: the ambassador extraordinary resided in Stockholm (till 1936), whereas a consul in Kaunas got the charge d'affaires title. …”
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Le goût anglais pour les arts vénitiens dans les Crudities de Thomas Coryate : spécificités de la curiosité dans l’Angleterre de la première modernité à l’aube du Grand Tour... by Anne Geoffroy

“…Finally, the crucial role played by Henry Wotton – the English ambassador to Venice at the time – will be examined from the perspective of cultural and artistic transmission.…”
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An Informal Approach to Interest-based Negotiations – Paul Anton Esterhazy and the “Cottage Coterie” by Katalin Schrek

“… Paul Anton Esterhazy was a prominent figure of the Hungarian aristocracy and a leading AustroHungarian politician, as well as a highly qualified and internationally recognised diplomat, with an extensive network of personal relations within the British elite. Esterhazy was an ambassador of Austria to London from 1815 to 1842 and represented the interests of the Central European state. …”
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One-Man Lobby in America: Vahan Cardashian (1883-1934) by Kürşad, Karacagil

“…Among these activities were the foundation of an independent Armenia, one of the issues discussed in the Sevrès Treaty, non-ratification of the Turco-American treaty signed on 6 August 1923 in Lausanne and his negative propaganda against Turkish ambassador to Washington, Ahmed Muhtar Bey.…”
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Baroque “Spin-Doctoring”: The Manipulative Use of Caprara’s Reports from Constantinople in 1682 by Lothar Höbelt

“…That is why, when the ambassador extraordinary to Constantinople, Conte Alberto Caprara, started sending alarmist reports in the summer of 1682, Baden manipulated them in a rather breathtaking fashion, almost turning their meaning on its head. …”
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Mobilizing the Past: Germany and the Second World War in Debates on Brexit by Thomas Williams

“…In 2018 the outgoing German ambassador to the UK, Peter Ammon, suggested that a sense of national identity based on how Britain had “stood alone” during the Second World War, combined with a negative perception of Germany’s supposed domination of the EU, had fuelled Euroscepticism and contributed to the success of the Leave campaign in the 2016 Brexit referendum. …”
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South Africa and Sweden: A Story of Solidarity, Trust, and Shared Common Values by Håkan Juholt

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Video communication, blue marble awe, and attitudes toward climate change and renewable energy by Ion Bogdan Vasi, Mario Paez-Arellano

“…One intervention used a dual reinforced message approach, which combined blue marble awe, solar PV technology facts, and a message from an astronaut who is an ambassador for renewable energy. Results show that the dual reinforced message approach has the strongest effects on energy and environmental attitudes. …”
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Autobiografía y educación en Mis maestros y mi educación de Federico Rubio y Galí by Marie-Hélène Soubeyroux

“…A physician and a politician (Member of Parliament and ambassador in London during the First Republic), Federico Rubio y Galí (1827-1902) is also the author of memoirs (Mis maestros y mi educación) which, although they appear in F. …”
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INCOGNITO AND THE NEW DIPLOMACY: THE CASE OF TSAR PETER by M. Jansson

“…It concludes by showing that the practice of an ambassador or a monarch traveling incognito saved a governments' treasury the cost of elaborate ceremonials and a large entourage but more importantly for a monarch, it provided freedom of movement and escape from the constriction of the formalities of court rituals. …”
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MUNICH CRISIS: BEHIND – THE SCENE HISTORY by A. Y. Borisov

“…To clarify the role of the US in European politics during the Munich crisis, the article draws on original sources from the archive of the American ambassador to the Soviet Union, J. Davis from the Library of Congress.…”
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Assessment of a youth climate empowerment program: Climate READY by R. L. Wellman, A. Henderson, R. Coleman, C. Hill, B. T. Davey

“…Both groups of students benefitted from the Climate READY Ambassador mentorship, demonstrating learning by doing and learning by storytelling.…”
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The Contribution of Gamelan Diplomacy to Restoring Bilateral Relations Between Indonesia and New Zealand by Cheryl Natasha, Jessica Martha

“…In response to New Zealand’s legal actions and economic sanctions, Indonesian Ambassador Tantowi Yahya intensified “gamelan diplomacy” efforts to alleviate the tension. …”
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“Do look on the other side of the water”: de la politique étrangère de Cromwell à l’égard de la France by Laurent CURELLY

“…Under study here is the role played by two actors at the behest of England’s authorities: on the one hand, Edward Sexy, a former New Model Army Agitator who was sent to Bordeaux as a Commonwealth agent in support of the rebellion there and translated the Leveller manifesto The Agreement of the People into English, and on the other hand, William Lockhart, Cromwell’s trusted friend-cum-relative who was appointed special ambassador to France with instructions to strengthen Anglo-French relationships and negotiate with Mazarin for a military alliance against Spain. …”
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Espaces et processus de politisation de l’humanitaire. L’Armenian Relief Fund et le National Armenian Relief Committee (1895-1896) : un miroir transatlantique ? by Stéphanie Prévost

“…The study also investigates how Anglo-American cooperation between in loco actors distributing relief on behalf of the NARC and the ARF (especially American missionaries, British private agents and consuls) could best develop on the margins of British and American metropolitan spaces; but it also insists that it required a facilitator: here, British ambassador at Constantinople Sir Philip Currie. The article finally contends that Currie’s coordination of the transnational / international relief movement does not only shed light on the Anglo-American collaboration, but more broadly interrogates the widespread understanding that the genesis of humanitarian diplomacy was primordially a consequence of World War One.…”
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The Metempiricism of Margins: Professor Anthony Aṣiwaju and the Circumference of Knowledge by Toyin Falola

“…His Excellency, Ambassador Yai, made the remark that the Yoruba had always been diasporic, moving like a river, connecting multiple points, passing through valleys and plateaus, between mountains, across vegetation. …”
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