Foreign Ministries

ZAKARIA HAJI AHMAD Professor and Head of the Strategic and Security Studies Unit, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia DAVID ALLEN Senior Lecturer in European Studies, Loughborough University JACQUES BILODEAU Deputy High Commissioner for Canada, London ANDREW F. COOPER Professor of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Canada C. EDWARD DILLERY Former Ambassador in the US Foreign Service MAURICE A. EAST Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington DC PAULETTE ENJALRAN Former Head Archivist of the Archives Diplomatique, Paris STUART HARRIS Professor of International Relations, Australian National University and former permanent Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra PHILIPPE HUSSON Former Ambassador in the French Foreign Service and Director of the Archives Diplomatiques, Paris AHARON KLIEMAN Professor of Political Science, University of Tel Aviv KYOJI KOMACHI Professor of Political Science, University of Tel Aviv RICHARD LANGHOME Director, Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, USA MARIE MULLER Professor of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa IVER B. NEUMANN Adviser, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former Head of Centre for Russian Studies, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo ANDRAeS ROZENTAL Former Mexican Deputy Foreign Minister and Ambassador in London. Currently a private consultant in Mexico City DAVID SPENCE Head of Training and Information, DG1A European Commission, Brussels IVAN TIOULINE Professor of Political Science and First Vice-Rector, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) WILLIAM WALLACE (LORD WALLACE OF SALTAIRE) Reader in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science. Liberal Democrat foreign policy spokesman in the House of Lords

In seeking to test the conventional wisdom that foreign ministries are 'in decline', the contributors to this book examine the role and status of foreign ministries in twelve countries together with their place within the European Union.In seeking to test the conventional wisdom that foreign ministries are 'in decline', the contributors to this book examine the role and status of foreign ministries in twelve countries together with their place within the European Union. Valuable information on the response of the foreign policy machinery to change at both the domestic and international levels is provided as are important insights into the linkages between foreign policy and the mechanisms through which it is conducted. This book will be essential reading for those concerned with foreign policy-making in the post-Cold War era as well as those interested in the evolving machinery of government in its broader context.