“This easy-to-understand book on the meaning of the consular institution will appeal to all readers in different stages of their transnational pursuits.”
Nido Qubein, President, High Point University, NC

Palgrave Macmillan Overview, Modern Consuls, Local Communities and Globalization: [this book] offers a tool in international relations conducted separately from the activities of ambassadors and other diplomats at the highest level of diplomacy at embassies in capital cities. In communities around the world, foreign consuls provide a local link to the modern arena of global activities. To be credible players in the international community, educational, civic and business leaders have to understand the role and nature of a variety of named consuls (such as a career consul, honorary consul, consul general, vice consul, head of post, and trade commissioner) and their official functions in various locations throughout a nation. The book also presents the international rules of consular diplomacy… for areas with an active consular corps.