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Examines the nature of the Papacy's involvement in the political and diplomatic issues of the modern world.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: Reflections on Vatican Diplomacy by Robert A. Graham, S.J.
A Diplomacy Unlike Any Other: Papal Diplomacy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Peter C. Kent and John F. Pollard
The Vatican and the Austrian Empire during the Restoration, 1814-1846 by Alan J. Reinerman
The Diplomacy of Intransigence: Vatican Policy during the Risorgimento by Frank J. Coppa
"Una furia piú che francese": The Quebec Church and Vatican Diplomacy in the Age of Anglo-Canadian Protestant Domination by Roberto Perin
The Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church in Atlantic Canada: Policies Regarding Ethnicity and Language, 1878-1922 by Phyllis E. LeBlanc
The Emergence of a New Vatican Diplomacy During the Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914-1929 by Stewart A. Stehlin
Ireland and the Vatican, 1921-1949 by Dermot Keogh
The Vatican, Germany and the Holocaust by John S. Conway
Pope Pius XII, Italy and the Second World War by Italo Garzia
Italy, the Holy See and the United States, 1939-1945 by Elisa A. Carrillo
Yugoslavia and the Vatican, 1919-1970 by Stella Alexander
The Vatican and the Palestinians: A Historical Overview by Andrej Kreutz
The Holy See and the Conflict in Lebanon by George Emile Irani
The Vatican and Israel by Sergio I. Minerbi
America, the Holy See and the War in Vietnam by Roy Palmer Domenico
The United States and the Vatican, 1939-1984 by Gerald P. Fogarty, S.J.
Reflections on the Nicaraguan Revolution and the Holy See in the 1980s by Ricardo Peter
The End of the Vatican's Ostpolitik by Peter Hebblethwaite
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

PETER C. KENT is Professor of History and Dean of Arts at the University if New Brunswick in Canada. He is the author of The Pope and the Duce (1981).

JOHN F. POLLARD is Professor and Department Head of History at Anglia Polytechnic University in England. He is the author of The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929-32 (1985).

Reviews

?The book is a good introduction to the subject.?-Perspectives on Political Science

?This book is not only interesting reading--it provides the details of an almost forgotten aspect of international relations forged by the only religiously oriented entity currently enjoying legal capacity as an international person. It provides a useful analysis of a "State" without a military arm, occupying a microscopic territory on a world map filled with powerful States, and at a time when many commentators fear that religious fundamentalism may be a potential replacement for conflicts suppressed during the Cold War.?-American Society of International Law

?The book is a good introduction to the subject.??Perspectives on Political Science

"The book is a good introduction to the subject."-Perspectives on Political Science

"This book is not only interesting reading--it provides the details of an almost forgotten aspect of international relations forged by the only religiously oriented entity currently enjoying legal capacity as an international person. It provides a useful analysis of a "State" without a military arm, occupying a microscopic territory on a world map filled with powerful States, and at a time when many commentators fear that religious fundamentalism may be a potential replacement for conflicts suppressed during the Cold War."-American Society of International Law