Community of Democraties

Diplomat’s Handbook

The Diplomat’s Handbook is a project commissioned by the Community of Democracies, and produced by the Council for a Community of Democracies with the financial support of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, Freedom House, the Princeton Project on National Security, the U.S. Department of State, the Government of India, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Government of Canada. Disclaimer: Financial contributors may not necessarily agree with all the contents of this Handbook. The Handbook project was conceived by Ambassador Mark Palmer.

Preparation of the Handbook has been a partnership between project Head, Ambassador Jeremy Kinsman ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), who has been principally responsible for the text of the Handbook itself, and the Director of Research, Kurt Bassuener ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), who has been principally responsible for producing the accompanying case studies.

The project benefits from the active partnership of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University, whose graduate students have conducted extensive research and prepared written drafts for country case studies, namely Bryan Crawford-Garrett, Hanna Jung, Britt Lake, Bart Szewczyk, and Taya Weiss. Patricia Marsden-Dole and Terry Jones, who served as Canadian High Commissioner and as Deputy High Commissioner in Dar-es-Salaam, drafted the Tanzania case study.

The text which follows and the case studies benefit from the generous contributions and advice of many former and current diplomatic practitioners, scholars, members of policy centers and nongovernmental organizations, and development experts.

Source: http://www.diplomatshandbook.org

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