lunedì 21 dicembre 2020

Are you wondering what to do for the next 14 days?

 So you finally have time to read all your economics, international law and history books and ….... DO ALL THAT TRANSLATION AND/OR NOTE-TAKING WORK THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN SEPTEMBER!!!!

So let's start with little light translation! Use the EU website to improve your ability to produce correct English vocabulary, grammar and syntax.

The homepage of the EU website

Start with the EU homepage and all the documents linked it. Open the homepage in Italian and open it again in English on another page on your laptop. Translate from Italian to English orally line by line, moving from the Italian version to the English version to check. Of course, there will be some differences of style and occasionally of sentence structure, but you are interested in identifying any really bad errors of vocabulary or grammar that you make (the errors will be mainly vocabulary) Make notes on your errors. You should also note any spelling you need to remember.

https://europa.eu/european-union/index_it

https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en

Then open all the documents listed on on the homepage (and the ones connected to those!) in Italian and English.

https://europa.eu/european-union/coronavirus-response_it

https://europa.eu/european-union/coronavirus-response_en

Sometimes you can change the language of the document directly on that page, but other times you have to go back to the original homepage in Italian or English and follow the same series of steps to the document that you want. In the EU Newsroom some of the documents are only in English, but the highlighted ones are in both languages. See which documents are in both languages and which are only in English on this page.  

https://europa.eu/newsroom/home_en

Look at the articles at the bottom in Special Coverage:

the EU/UK future relationship

https://ec.europa.eu/info/european-union-and-united-kingdom-forging-new-partnership_it

https://ec.europa.eu/info/european-union-and-united-kingdom-forging-new-partnership_en

And the EU response to Covid-19

https://europa.eu/european-union/coronavirus-response_it

https://europa.eu/european-union/coronavirus-response_en

The EU in 2019 (the General Report)

Don’t forget, if you need to expand your knowledge of basic vocabulary, go to the EU site in Italian and English, where you will find the 2019 EU General Report (134 pages). Open the report in Italian and open it again on another page in English on your laptop. Translate from Italian to English orally line by line, moving from the Italian version to the English version to check. Of course, there will be some differences of style and occasionally of sentence structure, but you are interested in identifying any really bad errors of vocabulary or grammar that you make (the errors will be mainly vocabulary) Make notes on your errors. You should also note any spelling you need to remember.

https://op.europa.eu/it/publication-detail/-/publication/66c4ad7e-6281-11ea-b735-01aa75ed71a1/language-it

https://op.europa.eu/it/publication-detail/-/publication/66c4ad7e-6281-11ea-b735-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

And then the 2018 EU General Report (154 pages)

https://publications.europa.eu/it/publication-detail/-/publication/292fd37c-30d8-11e9-8d04-01aa75ed71a1/language-it/format-PDF/source-103848005

then download the pdf format in both Italian and English

This will give you more than 150 pages of Italian to translate into English! To check your translation just move between the Italian and English version and take notes on regular language usage and differences. You can also download the French, Spanish or German versions.

And here's the 2017 General Report (130 pages)

https://publications.europa.eu/it/publication-detail/-/publication/4d16193a-25a7-11e8-ac73-01aa75ed71a1/language-it/format-PDF/source-103848083

And here's the 2016 General Report (104 pages)

https://publications.europa.eu/it/publication-detail/-/publication/99c8732c-094a-11e7-8a35-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

You can also get the General Reports for 2015 (96 pages) and 2014 (288 pages!)

https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/db649a28-e42e-11e5-8a50-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-75768461

https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/beafd525-4bc8-468c-9342-69041fb04e0f/language-en

If you prefer, you can go straight to the English version of the 2018 EU General Report or other texts on the EU site or UN site and simply start taking notes on common expressions used in diplomatic English. See my future post about the UN website for a little more information about how to get documents.

There's also the European Green Deal in Italian and English

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:b828d165-1c22-11ea-8c1f-01aa75ed71a1.0006.02/DOC_1&format=PDF

https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/european-green-deal-communication_en.pdf

The EU Recovery plan

https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/recovery-plan-europe_it

https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/recovery-plan-europe_en

and all the documents linked to this page

https://europa.eu/european-union/index_it

https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en

The UN

There is also the UN Annual Report 2019 for note-taking on the language, unless you want to translate from French or Spanish into English!

https://www.un.org/annualreport/

If you prefer you can go straight to the UN site and simply read and take notes on the vocabulary and phraseology that they use. Start with the UN News Centre:

https://news.un.org/en/news (click on the right for stories from previous years)

and for listening practice, go to the UN audio section

https://news.un.org/en/audio-hub

https://news.un.org/en/audio-product/news-brief

You should also look at all the links on the right on both those pages

There's also the FAO in Italian and English to practise your translation skills

The articles listed on the FAO archive page here are also available in English. Click on the article you want to get it in Italian and then open the site on another page on your laptop, go to the article again and click on 'English' at the top to get the English version. Translate from Italian to English orally line by line, moving from the Italian to the English text to check. Make notes on your vocabulary and grammar errors. Note any spelling you need to remember.

http://www.fao.org/news/archive/it/

There are also all the articles from previous years if you click on the year on the left.

Some examples from 2020 (but there are lots more):

http://www.fao.org/news/story/it/item/1264625/icode/

http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1264321/icode/

http://www.fao.org/news/story/it/item/1259827/icode/

http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1259800/icode/

http://www.fao.org/news/story/it/item/1257915/icode/

http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1257731/icode/

There ‘s also the Bank of Italy site to explore

https://www.bancaditalia.it/

https://www.bancaditalia.it/homepage/index.html?com.dotmarketing.htmlpage.language=1

For example:

https://www.bancaditalia.it/pubblicazioni/bollettino-eco-bce/2020/bol-eco-4-2020/index.html?com.dotmarketing.htmlpage.language=102

https://www.bancaditalia.it/pubblicazioni/bollettino-eco-bce/2020/bol-eco-4-2020/index.html

NATO

The best I can do for NATO is this:

https://www.nato.int/

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=it&sl=en&u=https://www.nato.int/&prev=search&pto=aue

venerdì 18 dicembre 2020

A possible essay plan on security

Is ‘security’ the key word in international relations today?

Introduction: Refer to a recent event that illustrates what you intend to write about, e.g. developments at the European Defence Agency or WFP emergency aid in Yemen and food security.

Line of argument: this essay will argue that the traditional meaning of 'security', which is the security of the state from external military attack, remains fundamental to international relations today (Hence Italy's membership of NATO) but it has been expanded to include new threats from other states like biological weapons, cyberattacks and fake news, as well as  asymmetric threats from non-state actors such as terrorism. Moreover, the word 'security' is now used in many other fields. This is the result of a shift in focus in international relations away from just states towards human beings and thus human security, of which, food security and water are obvious examples.

Explain the traditional concept of security as understood in the 18th, 19th and 20th century. The need for an army, navy, airforce, security services, a police force and secret services to provide protection from external and internal threats to the state and its economy (thus issues of energy security) and with the advent of democracy, threats to the citizens of the state. Explain how this concept remains fundamental and use Italy as an example. Explain that new threats have appeared, particularly since the end of the Cold War and start of the IT revolution, requiring new resources and strategies to deal with them e.g biological weapons, cyberattacks, economic attacks (to enery supplies, for example) and fake news, as well as  asymmetric threats from non-state actors such as terrorism and international crime (drug cartels, piracy and human trafficking). Give some real examples of  the problems and the attempts to deal with them.

Explain that with the creation of the UN and in particular with the adoption of the  Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, a new focus was placed on human rights and the international community's responsibility to promote and protect and 'secure' those rights ). The right to life leads naturally to emergency operations designed to provide water, food, shelter, and basic health care. Since the end of the Cold War there has been growing concern within the international community to secure civil rights such as equality before the law, freedom of expression, freedom of association, freedom from arbitrary arrest, privacy, the right to vote and the protection of minorities from discrimination. The UN also approved the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 1966 (entry into force 1976) which means that people have a right to a job, safe working conditions and fair pay, to social security, universal education, women's rights, protection of mothers and children and the prevention of disease and provision of adequate medical services. Where a state is unable to guarantee such rights it is, by implication, the responsibility of the international community to try to do so, to make these rights secure. More recently the campaign to combat global warming and rising levels of pollution, which are also destroying biodiversity, is also seen as a duty to secure the rights of future, unborn generations. So almost all the major questions in international relations can be considered 'security' issues of one kind or another.

Conclusion: The traditional concept of security will remain fundamental until humanity manages to produce a truly peaceful world order. However, with a shift in focus from states to people and new global threats that can only be dealt with through cooperation, 'security' has taken on a much broader meaning and range of concerns.

Is ‘security’ now the key word in international relations?

 The word ‘security’ in international relations used to have only one meaning, the safety of a state from attack or political interference by another state. So a state needed military forces, a police force, a security (secret) service and perhaps membership of an alliance to guarantee its independence and freedom from potential threats from other states. It is in this sense that the Italian Armed Forces and security services, in cooperation with NATO forces and, in particular, US conventional and nuclear forces (the nuclear umbrella) provided Italy with ‘security’ during the Cold War period, and continue to provide it with all the advantages of an alliance based on collective security. Developments at the Euopean Defence Agency now offer Italy another parallel line of defence. Moreover, states often saw and see themselves as responsible (where possible and usually through diplomacy) for their citizens’ safety abroad and, to some extent, for the well-being of expatriate emigrant communities in other countries, and these are roles that have grown over time. Another significant change is that for modern developed economies the traditional concept of security has grown to include asymmetric threats (not necessarily coming from another state) and threats in other fields such as energy security, cyber-security and even trade security.

In the traditional sphere of security a distinction should perhaps be made between threats to security that could be posed by states (e.g. Iran’s nuclear development programs and suspected nuclear arms ambitions, North Korea's nuclear arms and rocket tests) which can be addressed through the UN and traditional diplomacy, and the asymmetric threats posed by non-state transnational actors where the threat is not so easily tied to a specific state or location (e.g. a transnational terrorist group like Islamic State). The latter require widespread, intense and continuous cooperation and monitoring by the international community at the level of governments, police forces and security services. There is also an obvious conflict here between a state’s duty to ensure the security of its citizens and its legal and moral obligation to respect international laws and norms regarding privacy and the human rights of its own citizens, of those of other states and of those who are not officially recognized as citizens of any state. Cyber security threats may come from other states, or from non-state groups or individuals. Threats to energy security and trade security may come from other states, non-state actors (e.g. pirates), unsustainable competition for limited resources, natural disasters or simply a mismanaged global economy. 

However, today the term ‘security’ can be interpreted in many ways and is being applied more and more widely, mainly because we now think of security as relating to people rather than simply to the state (compare the following ideas, national security, international security and human security). Of course, as mentioned above, states generally did accept that they were responsible for trying to ensure the security of their citizens abroad. An attack on the citizens of a state could have serious consequences for the perpetrator in terms of diplomatic and popular reaction, and in terms or possible material retaliation, sanctions, or even war (think of the First World War, the sinking of the Lusitania and the death of American citizens, the later adoption by Germany of unrestricted submarine warfare and the US entry into the war).

In terms of the wider use of the word ‘security’ today, one way of linking the various current ‘security’ concepts is simply to think of the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the rights it sets out as belonging to all human beings. If human beings possess such rights then it is the task of the international community, the members of the UN to guarantee, to secure, these rights. Thus, the concept of security now includes institutions, systems and operations to safeguard these rights.

First, there is the most basic human right, the right to life. Thus, the vast majority of UN operations around the world are concerned with ‘security’ in terms of saving lives and providing sustainable living conditions. An attempt by the UN to mediate in order to prevent a conflict or to end a conflict between two countries or between two groups within a country, peace-keeping, peace-building and peace enforcement operations are all ways in which the UN, and thus the international community, seeks to protect people from war and violence and save lives, and promote their physical security. The same is true for UN attempts to promote and support governance-building in a failed or failing state, for all UN, NGO or single country emergency and humanitarian aid programs aimed at providing food, water, shelter, basic necessities and health care, and for longer term development programs to promote sustainable agricultural and industrial development and promote more effective resource management. Viewed in this way ‘sustainability’ simply means trying to guarantee security not only for people today but for future generations.

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

 The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights goes on to list other rights, civil rights – freedom from slavery, freedom from arbitrary arrest, the right to a speedy and fair trial, freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of the press, and the rights associated with active participation in politics. This suggests that ‘security’ for the citizens of a country means that individuals live in a functioning democracy, under the rule of law as enforced by a democratically controlled police force and judicial system. NATO, for example, exists as an alliance of countries of this kind, committed to guaranteeing to its members the ‘security’ of these kinds of values and not simply security from invasion. Moreover, issues such as human rights in China and, in particular, the civil, political, cultural and religious liberties of ethnic minorities such as Tibetans (Buddhists) and Uighurs (Moslems) and Chinese citizens in general, obviously do affect relations between China and the West. One can see this as Western concern to promote the security of basic rights in China, and to prevent the Chinese political model (the one-party authoritarian state) from spreading to other states as its economic influence grows along with its support for non-democratic and sometimes repressive regimes in Africa. Among these civil rights is freedom from ‘arbitrary interference with one’s privacy, family, home or correspondence’. As already noted, with the introduction of stronger anti-terrorist legislation such as the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act in the US many civil rights groups are concerned that the need for the state to provide its citizens with security against terrorist attacks has led to the infringement of privacy rights through the monitoring of phones and internet activity without ‘just cause’ (prior permission granted by a judge in specific circumstances). 

Questions relating to the prosecution of the individuals responsible for humanitarian crimes, atrocities, ethnic cleansing and genocide committed by groups or states are all concerned with providing justice (reasserting and ‘securing’ this idea through exemplary trials and sentences) after the framework of basic human rights has broken down or been deliberately ignored. Obviously, because of the its fundamental recognition of each member state’s sovereignty as regards its domestic affairs, the UN and its affiliated agencies are often unable to intervene effectively in such cases. As a result, these questions may become the subject of disputes in international relations and ultimately the work of the International Criminal Court in prosecuting individuals, or may never be adequately addressed in an international context because a state is too powerful and can block any legal action, or because a state does not belong to the ICC, or does not agree to cooperate with it. Nevertheless, the ICC exists in order to promote respect for human rights as a legal norm towards which all states must work.

The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights also says everyone has a series of economic and social rights, such as the right to health care, education, the right to a job, to earn money and to an adequate standard of living (although it is not clear how the international community can guarantee work!) and freedom from unsustainable low-wage economic exploitation. Thus, there are UN welfare programs aimed at providing health and education security and economic security in terms of sustainable development. As we have seen, such programs, together with programs for environmental protection, are aimed at promoting future human security in social and economic terms. Another concept here is the right to own property and the security of that ownership, a basic question in relation to civilians in failed states, faced with armed bands, or where there is an absence of the rule of law and the presence of criminal organizations or, more recently, the threats from piracy or exploitative élites (where would-be businessmen and professionals cannot be sure of keeping a reasonable amount of the money they make or the ownership of the business they set up).

‘Security’ can be similarly interpreted in terms of the need to guarantee the right to freedom of movement, whether as a necessity (for refugees) or as an opportunity (for migrants).

Questions relating to women’s rights and the rights of children may be in terms of basic human rights (protection from violence and slavery), civil rights (the same civil rights as men) or social and economic rights (education, freedom from exploitation in terms of labor and for women freedom from forced marriage and forced child-bearing – the right to choose).

All of this is to say that although the international community today seems to see ‘security’ in terms of the fight against terrorism, the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological arms, illegal trafficking in conventional arms, drugs, people and organs, and the protection of information systems against cyber-attacks, the term ‘security’ needs a much wider interpretation to be fully understood in today’s world.

Exercise – Consider the following issues: women’s rights in Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Muslim world, freedom of the press and the Kurdish question in Turkey, minority rights in Russia, discrimination and the right to privacy of Muslims in Europe. These are all issues that cannot be ignored at the international level and that may therefore affect diplomatic relations and security issues in the broadest sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_security

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_security

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-terrorism_legislation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_governance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_security

Some Observations

Foreign policy and domestic politics are no longer completely separate. This is very clear in the EU but is also of growing importance within the international community as a whole, within the UN and other international bodies or in bilateral relations.

120 years ago, the sovereignty of the state was an absolute value. Enhancing the power of the state and guaranteeing the state’s security were legitimate and often primary goals of the state. Compare that with today. The IR environment has changed, partly as a result of the much greater degree of globalized trade and technical development, but also because of the education and information revolutions. Ordinary people can monitor and participate in domestic and international relations much more, and much more easily. As we have seen, they are themselves also the subject of security questions, all those concerning the human individual and many of these are best addressed or can only be addressed now through cooperation at the international level.

Moreover, where development has failed to take place in one state (and where the rule of law collapses and there is widespread human suffering) this situation may endanger first local regional security and eventually international security. So military interventions are not purely for tangible national interests but also for the promotion or maintenance of shared values also with regard to perceived future threats (NATO’s recent operations). Security was previously thought of in terms of military and economic strength, and borders were real and protected. Today security is fundamentally dealt with through coordinated action on the basis of shared values and concerns (e.g. Japanese foreign policy today compared with 80 years ago) across borders and at many levels through many organizations (e.g. the ILO, UNESCO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the IMF). Is it even possible today to think of fighting and ‘winning’ a war in the traditional sense? Conventionally, this meant defeating another state and imposing an advantageous settlement. Perhaps war, at least for the West, is now usually a question of military operations undertaken because of a perceived security threat, in the context of a campaign to maintain public support at home and ‘win hearts and minds’ in the country where the war is fought (e.g. Iraq and Afghanistan). If so, perhaps the UN, as currently constituted on the basis of sovereign states, is out of date and even unreformable, since the subject of IR and broad security questions is now often people rather than states.

The main problem for the EU remains that of its future identity. Is it going to stay a group of sovereign states or will it evolve into some kind of federal union? Shared foreign policy, its latest objective, ultimately requires shared sovereignty. The Greek financial crisis illustrates the problems for the EU at the internal level, while on international questions the EU’s more powerful members often speak for themselves and with conflicting voices. The EU’s effectiveness both in guaranteeing economic security to its citizens and in helping to promote human security abroad will ultimately depend on how much political unity it manages to achieve.

Of course, not all states are ready and willing to embrace these new values and this new version of IR. Some still pursue Realpolitik to at least a significant degree, and among these are both some of the world’s most powerful states (Russia, China, and the US) and some of the world’s least democratic and least open states (North Korea and Iran). Thus, some states which are members of the UN and have signed the UN Charter do not actually share its values and may see it as a Western organization trying to impose Western values. So currently IR is a mix of the traditional goals and methods of foreign policy and diplomacy and the new objectives and methods which are still evolving, but perhaps evolving too slowly to keep pace with a changing world. International relations often runs the risk of being an uneasy compromise between real idealism, wishful thinking and harsh power politics, based sometimes on interventions, which may no longer be determined simply by the material interests of nation states but by a mix of conflicting values, and sometimes on a failure to intervene (Rwanda, Syria?). The nation state alone is no longer able to resolve global problems through traditional negotiations and Realpolitik, but a world government based on truly shared values and with effective powers does not exist yet. So collective security and human security remain difficult concepts, works in progress rather than a given legally-enforceable framework for international relations. 

http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_security

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_of_person#:~:text=Security%20of%20the%20person%20is,the%20United%20Nations%20in%201948.&text=In%20general%2C%20the%20right%20to,remedy%20such%20as%20habeas%20corpus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goals

https://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/getmedia/313a610a-e688-4347-8921-427ffe0ee4e0/SecuringChildrensRights_GBR.pdf

https://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/minorities/pages/minoritiesindex.aspx (it says ‘….. measures to secure the rights of persons belonging to minorities’).

https://www.who.int/health-topics/health-security/#tab=tab_1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_security

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_security

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_security

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/RightSocialSecurity/Pages/SocialSecurity.aspx

https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/employment-security/lang--en/index.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_security

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld

lunedì 14 dicembre 2020

EU Missions

 https://eu2019.fi/en/backgrounders/eu-military-and-civilian-crisis-management#:~:text=EU%20missions%20and%20operations,has%20six%20ongoing%20military%20operations.&text=These%20are%20EUNAVFOR%20operation%20Atalanta,ongoing%20civilian%20crisis%20management%20missions.

If you have doubts about how Italy and the EU use the word 'security'.

https://www.esteri.it/mae/en/ministero/struttura/dgaffaripoliticisicurezza

https://www.esteri.it/mae/en/search?q=site:www.esteri.it%20food%20security

https://www.esteri.it/mae/en/search?q=site:www.esteri.it%20human%20security

https://www.esteri.it/mae/en/search?q=site:www.esteri.it%20energy%20security

https://www.esteri.it/mae/en/search?q=site:www.esteri.it%20environmental%20security

https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/representations/item-detail.cfm?item_id=631398

https://europa.eu/search/?queryText=energy+security+&x=0&y=0#

https://europa.eu/search/?queryText=human+security&x=0&y=0#

https://europa.eu/search/?queryText=environmental+security&x=0&y=0#

https://europa.eu/search/?swlang=en&queryText=security&query_source=EUNION&filterSource=EUNION&more_options_date=*&more_options_date_from=&more_options_date_to=&more_options_language=en&more_options_f_formats=*

sabato 12 dicembre 2020

An Iron Fist - answers

 1) C   2) D   3) A   4) C   5) C

Some ideas about diplomacy and what makes a good diplomat - update

 "Above all, not too much zeal!"

                                               Talleyrand
http://www.ediplomat.com/nd/essays/delaboulaye.htm
http://www.ediplomat.com/nd/functions.htm
http://www.ediplomat.com/nd/essays/maclehose.htm
https://www.clingendael.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/20120504_cling_research_artikel_discussionpaperindiplomacy_123_ruel_and_zuidema.pdf https://www.clingendael.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/20070400_cdsp_diplomacy_kostecki_naray.pdf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/14/ambassadors-job-diplomat-training
http://www.diplomacy.edu/resources/general/knowledge-management-and-diplomatic-training-new-approaches-training-institutions
http://books.google.it/books?id=SXFePmd2uEIC&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120&dq=qualities+diplomat&source=bl&ots=SLd2eiwMdJ&sig=2Y6qHdQ5Z8tLTjVZmTq3L_2M6Lw&hl=it&sa=X&ei=_idoT_D7M_Da4QSX8ZmGCQ&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=qualities%20diplomat&f=false
http://www.oocities.org/metisfederation/dqs.html
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200601/12/eng20060112_234952.html
http://www.ediplomat.com/nd/essays/kitahara.htm
http://www.ediplomat.com/nd/essays/gruber.htm
http://www.jhubc.it/ecpr-porto/virtualpaperroom/047.pdf                 http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/10/23/10-parting-thoughts-for-americas-diplomats/   https://www.diplomacy.edu/resources/general/who-needs-diplomats-problem-diplomatic-representation https://www.diplomacy.edu/sites/default/files/IC%20and%20Diplomacy%20%28FINAL%29_Part22.pdf 

https://eda.ac.ae/docs/default-source/Publications/edareflectiongooddiplomatenglish.pdf?sfvrsn=2 https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/ideal-qualities-successful-diplomat https://www.coursera.org/lecture/global-diplomacy/what-are-the-qualities-of-a-good-diplomat-isveJ

http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/what-makes-successful-diplomacy/
https://www.diplomacy.edu/sites/default/files/IC%20and%20Diplomacy%20%28FINAL%29_Part22.pdf

https://thediplomatinspain.com/en/2017/02/traits-successful-diplomat/ https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-characteristics-of-a-good-diplomat
https://diplomacyoldandnew2013e.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/which-qualities-should-successful-diplomat-have/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229727064_To_be_a_Diplomat https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/rgs_dissertations/2005/RGSD169.pdf