TY - CHAP
T1 - ‘“The Diplomatic Digestive Organ”'
T2 - The Foreign Office as the Nerve Centre of Foreign Policy, c. 1800-1940
AU - Otte, T.G.
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - Foreign ministries form a central part of modern diplomatic practice. They emerged slowly and haphazardly from the late fifteenth century onwards. With the growth in scope – both geographical and temporal – and intensity of diplomacy came the need for a central organization that could control and coordinate policy at the seat of government.In Tudor and Elizabethan England, too, the steady growth of diplomatic activity spurred on institutional change in the shape of the Principal Secretary of State. Initially, an officer of the royal household, executing the decisions of the monarch and the Privy Council, over time much of his business came to be focused on foreign affairs.
AB - Foreign ministries form a central part of modern diplomatic practice. They emerged slowly and haphazardly from the late fifteenth century onwards. With the growth in scope – both geographical and temporal – and intensity of diplomacy came the need for a central organization that could control and coordinate policy at the seat of government.In Tudor and Elizabethan England, too, the steady growth of diplomatic activity spurred on institutional change in the shape of the Principal Secretary of State. Initially, an officer of the royal household, executing the decisions of the monarch and the Privy Council, over time much of his business came to be focused on foreign affairs.
U2 - 10.1017/9781108182775.006
DO - 10.1017/9781108182775.006
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 978-1-107-19885-2
SP - 90
EP - 110
BT - British World Policy and the Projection of British Power, 1830-1960
A2 - Otte, T.G.
CY - Cambridge
ER -