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  Diplomacy rules

  

  Issue 35

  Geneva: a world-shaper, a knowledge economy, a cultural hub and a city on the rise in our Quality of Life index. But how long can it hold on to its unique role? Property is hard to find, living costs are high and there are…

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  Diplomacy briefing

  

  Issue 61

  Germany's man in Belgrade, the new Greek embassy, and Japanese PM's diplomatic style.

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  Affairs / Diplomacy

  High noon for Sharif

  

  Issue 23

  The new president of Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, has a lot to contend with: pirates, a humanitarian disaster and deadly rivals. But is he the man to revive the failed state? We meet him in Nairobi during a round…

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  Affairs / Diplomacy

  Diplomacy Briefing

  

  Issue 52

  An interview with the Geneva-based, football-playing Brazilian permanent representative to the WTO.

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• Affairs / Diplomacy

  Special relations

  

  Issue 52

  Nothing represents the shifting sands of global politics better than the African Union’s gleaming new HQ in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A gift from the Chinese, it’s proof of the Asian giant’s growing clout. But the Germans are…

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  Two is company

  

  Issue 46

  In the latest in our ambassadors series, Monocle talks to the husband-and-wife team trying out the ultimate diplomatic job share scheme in the Thai capital.

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  Diplomacy Briefing

  

  Issue 56

  An interview with the Swedish Navy defence attache in Washington, Qatar's position on Syria, and China and Japan put the spooks on each other on joint exercises.

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  Diplomacy Briefing

  

  Issue 43

  We meet José Luís Robaína García, Cuba's ambassador to New Zealand, for the first on our new series on diplomacy. We also look at the "diplomatic pouch", that slightly quaint method of shipping secret documents.

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• Design / Diplomacy

  National Pride

  

  Issue 18

  Security concerns- and a lack of imagination - have been responsible for the emergence of the bunker-style embassy building. But it doesn't have to be that way. Monocle surveys the designs a nation can be proud of, and…

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  Defence Briefing

  

  Issue 51

  Saudi's Arabia's big weapons spend and a personnel shortage in the Polish Army.

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  That'll be the dane

  

  Issue 56

  Monocle questions Nato’s secretary general about progress in Afghanistan, new threats, managing defence cuts and the organisation’s role in the Asia-Pacific region.

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  Africa/Middle East briefing

  

  Issue 22

  Kenya's drink-driving crackdown, a new island in the Med and a new metro for Algiers, 40 years after its initial conception.

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