Category: Internal politics

  • Good Offices

    Good Offices

    Good Offices in Diplomatic LawAn effort by a third state, or by an individual or an international body, designed to stimulate the processes of settlement in a dispute between two other states.ResourcesSee Alsohttp://lawin.org/tag/dipl…

  • Good Offices

    Good Offices

    Good Offices in Diplomatic LawAn effort by a third state, or by an individual or an international body, designed to stimulate the processes of settlement in a dispute between two other states.ResourcesSee Alsohttp://lawin.org/tag/dipl…

  • Full Powers

    Full Powers in Diplomatic LawA document which authorizes a diplomat to conduct and consummate special business on behalf of his government, such as the settlement of a dispute or the negotiation and signing of a treaty. Before signing a treaty, a diplomat is obligated to…

  • Royal Prerogative

    Royal Prerogative

    An arbitrary power vested in the executive which is discretionary and uncontrolled. 161 Mich. 691. …

  • Foreign Affairs Community

    Foreign Affairs Community in Diplomatic LawAn American government term used to denote the State Department and other government departments and agencies (Defense, Commerce, Agriculture, Treasury, U.S. Information Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the…

  • Head of Chancery

    Head of Chancery in Diplomatic LawChancery, Head ofAn important position in British embassies not found in American diplomatic establishments. An officer, usually head of the political section, charged with coordinating the substantive and administrative performance of the embassy….

  • High Commissioner

    High Commissioner in Diplomatic LawThe chief of a high commission. Similar to what an ambassador is to an embassy.ResourcesSee AlsoDiplomacy entries in the World Encyclopedia<a href=&quot…

  • Ex Gracia

    Ex Gracia in Diplomatic LawSomething which is done as a gesture of good will and not on the basis of an accepted legal obligation.ResourcesSee AlsoDiplomacy entries in the World Encyclopedia<a hr…

  • Excellency

    Excellency in Diplomatic LawAn archaic but still much-used title for addressing an ambassador. Theoretically, an American ambassador is not supposed to be addressed this way, but he generally is – along with all his other ambassadorial colleagues. Mr. Ambassador&quo…

  • Exchange of Notes

    Exchange of Notes in Diplomatic LawA common way of recording an agreement. The contents of the notes are, of course, agreed upon in advance by the two nations participating in the exchange.ResourcesSee Also<a href=http://lawin.org/tag/di…

  • Foggy Bottom

    Foggy Bottom in Diplomatic LawThe name given to a once marsh like area near Washington’s Potomac River, and now somewhat irreverently bequeathed to the U.S. Department of State, one of that area’s best-known modern occupants.ResourcesSee Also<u…

  • Diplomatic Illness

    Diplomatic Illness

    Diplomatic Illness in Diplomatic LawThe practice of feigning illness to avoid participation in a diplomatic event of one kind or another and at the same time to avoid giving formal offense. Diplomatic deafness is a somewhat related concept whereby olde…

  • Ambassadress

    Ambassadress in Diplomatic LawA term often used to denote the wife of an ambassador, and misused to denote a woman chief of mission. The latter is an ambassador, not an ambassadress.ResourcesSee Also<a href=http://lawin.org/tag/diplomacy/&quo…

  • Ombudsman

    Defensor del Pueblo…