Mini-Embassy

  • Mini Embassy is small staffed, housed
    • No more than 4 staff member from home
    • For rapidly changing situtations (war, refugee crises)
    • Limited functions: representation, promotion of good relations
  • Advantages
    • Cheap, for smaller and poorer nations
    • Mini-embassies can act as training grounds for newbie diplomats
    • Easy & quick adjustments of staff, objectives, roles
  • Disadvantage
    • Limited function means low prestige, esp for prestigeous nations
    • Low security