Consular Corps Suggested Reading List

Select Publications by Recent Consular Corps College Speakers

Adam Kahane
Director, Reos Partners
CCC Presentation: Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust
Mr. Kahane has notably published: Solving Tough Problems; Collaborating with the Enemy; Power and Love; Transformative Scenario Planning; Facilitating Breakthrough. https://smile.amazon.com/Collaborating-Enemy-People-Agree-Trust/dp/1626568227?sa-no-redirect=1

Robert D. Kaplan
Chair in Geopolitics, Foreign Research Policy Institute (FPRI)
CCC Presentation: Biden Foreign Policy: First 100 Days (Click here to view this presentation in its entirety)
Author of 19 books including: The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. https://www.robertdkaplan.com/robert_d_kaplan_books.htm

Andy Karellas
Executive Director, State International Development Organizations (SIDO)
CCC Presentation: Economic Development Panel Discussion (International Economic Development and Trade Promotion: An Overview of National and State Resources for Consuls and Honorary Consuls)
Author of The Council of State Governments Top 5 International Affairs 2016  https://knowledgecenter.csg.org/kc/content/top-5-issues-2016-international-affairs

Shaila Manyam
Sr.VP, Public Affairs & Crisis, Burson Cohn & Wolfe
CCC Presentation: Digital Diplomacy
Co-author of The Eightfold Path of Paradox; published November 10, 2020 in the Atticus Journal. https://www.wpp.com/wpp-iq/2020/10/the-eightfold-path-of-paradox

Anna Sabrina Wollmann
International Law Programme, Division for Multilateral Diplomacy, United Nations Institute for Training and Research
CCC Presentation: Introduction to the UNITAR Executive Diploma on Diplomatic Law for Honorary Consuls
Author of Nationality Requirements in Olympic Sports https://smile.amazon.com/Nationality-Requirements-Olympic-Sabrina-Wollmann/dp/946240321X?sa-no-redirect=1

Bruce Zagaris, Esq. 
Partner, Berliner Corcoran and Rowe
CCC Presentation: The U.S. Election and Potential International Law Policy Priorities and Challenges in the Next Administration
Bruce Zagaris has published extensively, notably: International White Collar Crime: Cases and Materials; and International Criminal Law: Cases and Materials www.thriftbooks.com/a/bruce-zagaris/1056374

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General Reference

Denslow, Lanie. World Wise: What to Know Before You Go.  Fairchild, 2006.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Wise-What-Know-Before/dp/1563673592/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=lanie+denslow%2C+worldwide+what+to+know+before+you+go&qid=1599588249&s=books&sr=1-1

Greene, Grahm.  The Honorary Consul. Penguin Classics, 2008. Fiction.
https://www.amazon.com/Honorary-Consul-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143105558/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=honorary+consul&qid=1599168979&s=books&sr=1-2

Hickey, Robert. Honor and Respect: The Official Guide to Names, Titles, and Forms of Address. The Protocol School of Washington, 2008 and 2013
https://www.amazon.com/Honor-Respect-Official-Titles-Address/dp/0989188604

Hofstadter, Cami Green.  Modern Consuls, Local Communities and Globalization. Springer, 2020. 
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030428013

Hofstadter, Cami Green. Foreign Consuls Among Us: A Guide to Citizen Diplomacy. Seagreen Press, 2011 and 2013.
https://www.amazon.com/Foreign-Consuls-Among-Us-Diplomacy/dp/0988216906

Kennedy, Charles Stuart. The American Consul: A History of the United States Consular Service 1776-1924. ADST-DACOR, 2015
https://www.amazon.com/AMERICAN-CONSUL-History-Consular-1776-1924/dp/099069397X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=consular&qid=1599168199&s=books&sr=1-2

Lee, Luke T. and Quigley, John.  Consular Law and Practice. 1961.  
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/019829851X/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

Melissen, Jan and Mar Fernandez, Ana. Consular Affairs and Diplomacy. Brill, 2011 
https://brill.com/view/title/19143
https://www.amazon.com/Consular-Affairs-Diplomacy-Diplomatic-Studies/dp/9004188762/ref=sr_1_16?dchild=1&keywords=consular&qid=1599168199&s=books&sr=1-16

Stewart-Allen, Allyson and Denslow, Lanie.  Working with Americans: How to Build Profitable Business Relationships.  Routledge, 2002 and 2020.
https://www.amazon.com/Working-Americans-Profitable-Business-Relationships/dp/0367196700/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=lanie+denslow+working+with+americans&qid=1599587837&s=books&sr=1-3

Stringer, Kevin D.,“Think Global, Act Local: Honorary Consuls in a transforming diplomatic World.”  Discussion Papers in Diplomacy. The Clingendael Institute, 2007
https://www.clingendael.org/publication/think-global-act-local-honorary-consuls-transforming-diplomatic-world

Zanzar, Alexander.  Honorary Consul Diplomacy: A Guide for Governments and (to be) Honorary Consuls.  Kindle, 2012
https://www.amazon.com/Honorary-Consular-Diplomacy-Alexander-Zanzer-ebook/dp/B0081EJJ2M/ref=sr_1_14?dchild=1&keywords=consular&qid=1599168199&s=books&sr=1-14