This volume is a unique comparative study of the evolution and role of the world's leading foreign ministries from their inception to 1982. Each chapter contains detailed structural charts and bibliographical checklists.
Zara Steiner, FBA (née Shakow) was an American-born British historian and academic. She specialised in foreign relations, international relations, 20th century history of Europe and of the United States. Her husband is the essayist George Steiner