Foreign Ministries Managing Diplomatic Networks and Optimizing Value

Over the years, he has delivered lectures on diplomatic information and analysis, at the Diplomatic Academy of the MFA; on Romanian foreign policy, at the Academy of High Military Studies, Bucharest; and was a guest professor at the NATO Studies Centre in Bucharest and the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Bucharest, where he lectured mainly on the political aspects of Islam and the devel. [...] In the light of the debate concerning the impact of globalization and regionalization on the power, role and organization of government, the condition of that part of the bureaucracy most closely identified with the interface between the domestic and international milieus is, prima facie, of interest. [...] It is worth noting in passing that prior to the emergence of the earliest foreign ministries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the norm was to combine the management of domestic and foreign policy within a single department.14 It was the recognition by Richelieu of the need for continuity and coordination in the management of French foreign relations in the increasingly complex system o. [...] This derives from the nature of the work, patterns of recruitment and, as noted above, the location of the MFA at the cusp of two environments, the international and the domestic. [...] One of the current tensions in the operation of both the MFA and its network is the result of the need to cope with a challenge to this dimension of their culture as they respond to the demands of the ‘public service’ culture and a consequent ‘consumerisation’ of diplomacy.