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.

List of Tables and Figures Foreword; J.Bilodeau Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Foreign Ministries: Redefining the Gatekeeper Role; B.Hocking Diplomacy towards the Twenty-First Century; R.Langhorne & W.Wallace Australia: Change and Adaptation in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; S.Harris Canada: Trying to Get it Right: The Foreign Ministry and Organizational Change; A.F.Cooper France: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs: 'something new, but which is the legitimate continuation of our past...'; P.Enjalran & P.Husson Israel: Succumbing to Foreign Ministry Declinism; A.Klieman Japan: Towards a More Proactive Foreign Ministry; K.Komachi Malaysia: Change and Adaptation in Foreign Policy: Malaysia's Foreign Ministry; Z.H.Ahmad Mexico: Change and Adaptation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; A.Rozental Norway: The Foreign Ministry: Bracketing Interdependence; I.B.Neumann Russia: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Through Decline towards Renewal; I.Tiouline South Africa: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs: from Isolation to Integration to Coherency; M.Muller United Kingdom: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office: 'Flexible, Responsive and Proactive'?; D.Allen The United States: The State Department's Post-Cold War Status; M.A.East & C.E.Dillery Foreign Ministries in National and European Context; D.Spence Index List of Tables and Figures

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

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