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Geoff Berridge
Emeritus Professor of International Politics, University of Leicester
Professor G.R. Berridge is Emeritus Professor of International Politics at the University of Leicester, where he was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Diplomacy. For many years, he was General Editor of the Macmillan series, Studies in Diplomacy, and Associate Editor (with responsibility for twentieth century diplomatists) of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is the author of numerous books on diplomacy, including the best-selling textbook, Diplomacy: Theory and Practice, which has been translated into numerous languages, including Chinese. His most recent books include Embassies in Armed Conflict, the third edition (with L. Lloyd) of The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Diplomacy, and A Diplomatic Whistleblower in the Victorian Era. Professor Berridge has been an external examiner at various British universities, including Birmingham, Durham, and London (School of Oriental and African Studies).
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May 2013 online diplomacy courses
In May 2013 we introduce our new online course on Economic Diplomacy, developed by expert faculty members Ambassdor Kishan Rana, Professor G. R. Berridge, and Mr Bipul Chatterjee. Other exciting courses scheduled for ...
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09 Aug, 2001
Consular Law and Practice, 2nd edn
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11 Jan, 2002
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06 Aug, 1999
Frontline Diplomacy: The U.S. Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection on CD-ROM
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09 Aug, 2000
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10 Jul, 2000
Born a Foreigner: A Memoir of the American Presence in Asia
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04 Aug, 1999
Making Foreign Policy: A Certain Idea of Britain
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15 Mar, 2000
The History of Diplomatic Immunity
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20 Aug, 1999
Diplomacy with a Difference: The Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1880-2006
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11 Aug, 2007
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11 Aug, 2006
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26 Apr, 2007
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12 Aug, 2005
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02 May, 2006
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29 Nov, 2005
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21 Oct, 2005
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29 Sep, 2005
Managing the Cold War: A view from the front line
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20 Jun, 2005
Discourse on the Art of Negotiation
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06 Aug, 2004
The New Diplomacy
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02 Aug, 2002
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01 Feb, 2002
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10 Feb, 2004
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26 Aug, 2011
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19 Feb, 2009
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17 Dec, 2008
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08 Jan, 2014
Diplomatenleben
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23 Aug, 2013
Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a political survivor
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14 Sep, 2013
British Diplomacy and the Descent into Chaos: The career of Jack Garnett, 1902-19
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03 Aug, 2012
Transformational Diplomacy after the Cold War: Britain’s Know How Fund in Post-Communist Europe, 1989-2003
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30 Apr, 2013
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18 Aug, 2011
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12 Aug, 2011
Room for Diplomacy: The history of Britain’s diplomatic buildings overseas, 1800-2000
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10 Aug, 2017
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03 Aug, 2017
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19 Jul, 2017
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19 Aug, 2016
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28 Aug, 2015
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04 Aug, 2014
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20 Aug, 1992
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11 Feb, 2000
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08 Aug, 2008
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12 Aug, 2011
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24 Aug, 2012
South Africa and the Simonstown Agreements
In John Young (ed.), The Foreign Policy of Churchill’s Peacetime Administration 1951-1955 (Leicester UP, 1988)...
19 Aug, 1988
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In John D. Brewer (ed.), Can South Africa Survive? (Macmillan, London, 1989), pp. 9-34....
11 Aug, 1989
South Africa
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04 Aug, 1989
The UN and the world diplomatic system: lessons from the Cyprus and US- North Korea talks
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Funeral summits
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09 Aug, 1996
The role of the diplomatic corps: the US-North Korea talks in Beijing, 1988-94
In J. Melissen (ed.), Innovation in Diplomatic Practice, pp. 214-30 (Macmillan, London, 1999), ISBN 0-333-69122-9/...
19 Aug, 1999
Nation, Class, and Diplomacy: The dragomanate of the British embassy in Constantinople, 1814-1914
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15 Aug, 2008
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