Wikipedia:WikiProject International relations

Welcome to the International relations WikiProject!

Goals

 * The main goals of this WikiProject are made up of two parts:
 * to create a detailed account of diplomatic relations between countries both in the past and present
 * to define in detail diplomatic processes, its parts, and the occupations involved

Scope

 * The project covers all articles that involve a relationship between 2 or more governing entities. Said entities include those that exist today and those that do not exist anymore, such as the Soviet Union. Articles under this project's scope include, but are not limited to:
 * Diplomatic terms, processes, occupations - Examples include diplomacy, foreign relations, Chargé d'affaires, etc.
 * International organizations - Such organizations must consist of a union with several member governments. Examples include the League of Nations, United Nations and the European Union
 * Diplomats - This includes ambassadors, diplomats, consuls, foreign ministers, etc. Examples include Hersey Kyota, List of Ambassadors of Russia to Austria
 * International meetings - International meetings include summits and other interaction between political leaders in the interest of foreign relations. Examples include Millennium Summit, Shamrock Summit, and Summit of the Americas.
 * Foreign relations - This describes the policies that a particular country has vis-à-vis with other countries, or on particular issues (e.g.: Foreign relations of Qatar. Additionally this also includes the category which details the network of foreign missions a country has abroad (e.g.: Qatari diplomatic missions), and diplomatic missions located in that country (e.g.: List of diplomatic missions in Russia).
 * Bilateral relations - This involves the relationship between two governments. An example is Australia–Russia relations, and the Ngo Dinh Diem presidential visit to Australia.

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 * Popular pages: A bot-generated list of pageviews, useful for focused cleanup of frequently viewed articles.

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 * 45) See my userpage for the list (I can also fluently read, but not write Slovenian)
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Open tasks

 * Advertise this WikiProject by means of invitation and project banners
 * Maintain and expand this project
 * Urge cooperation with other WikiProjects related to politics and governments
 * Add proper headings to succession boxes
 * Question: Is Secretary of State a Diplomatic Post or a Political Office? I see no header for a cabinet level office. See Template:S-start/doc
 * One answer: If it's (normally) elected, it's political.  If appointed, it's diplomatic.  Example:  The Secretary of State of Kansas is elected.  That's true in many if not all states of the US.  On the other hand, per the Appointments Clause, the President "shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint" all "Officers of the United States," with an "officer" being someone who exercises "significant authority".
 * What is the history of chanceries? Specifically, when did chanceries/embassies become sovereign territory?
 * In modern times, under the 1961 Vienna Convention, specifically articles 21-25. Note that chanceries are not sovereign territory, as the Khashoggi case showed, merely inviolable. In ancient times, it was the body of the ambassador that was inviolate, rather than a specific building.

Requested articles
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 * Draft:ASEAN-Japan Centre: Available for review
 * ASEAN-Korea Center: request
 * ASEAN-US Center: request
 * ASEAN-India Centre: request
 * ASEAN-Australia Centre: request
 * ASEAN-China Centre: request
 * Draft:International relations of Wales: currently being developed
 * Maritime border dispute between Kenya and Somalia - this article is particularly in need of NPOV updates to reflect recent developments
 * ASEAN–Australia Development Cooperation Program
 * WikiProject Women in Red/Diplomats (CS) - list of female diplomats that are red links
 * Alliance for Multilateralism (so far only an uncategorized draft)
 * Lists of Diplomatic relations and Diplomatic recognition for each country (preferably with dates). Currently there are some relations lists on the "Foreign relations of ..." articles and also there are recognitions lists for the states with limited recognition.
 * Similar to Dates of establishment of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, Dates of establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union or Dates of establishment of diplomatic relations with Francoist Spain?
 * Lists for Visa-free travel 'for passport-type/citizen' and 'to country' (see discussion page: ; missing articles in Template:Visa policy by country and Template:Visa policy by country)
 * Diplomacy in the Ancient Near East - fr:Diplomatie dans le Proche-Orient ancien
 * List of Diplomatic Conferences
 * List of International Summits
 * List of International Conferences
 * International political culturology
 * Portal:International relations - fr:Portail:Relations internationales; pt:Portal:Relações internacionais
 * lists of non-resident accreditations of ambassadors/consuls and honorary consuls - by sending/receiving country
 * Combes-Ivanov affair
 * Austria–Sweden relations
 * Bhutan–Kuwait relations
 * Germany–Latvia relations - currently a redirect
 * Germany–Lithuania relations - currently a redirect
 * Germany–Spain relations - needs expanding
 * Iraq–Ireland relations
 * Philippines–Portugal relations
 * Kurdistan Region–United Kingdom relations
 * Kurdistan Region–United States relations
 * United Nations Committee on Decolonization --> Special Committee on Decolonization
 * A true Embassy article.
 * Ministries of foreign affairs in various countries; (see also list of red links here)
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Botswana) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation (Burkina Faso) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Burundi)
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Cameroon)
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Communities (Cape Verde) - [http://www.mne.gov.cv/
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Central African Republic)
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chad)
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Republic of the Congo)
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Religion (Costa Rica) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Dominican Republic) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ecuador) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (El Salvador) -
 * Department of Foreign Affairs, Overseas Embassies, Consulates, and Missions (Federated States of Micronesia) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Gabon)
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation and NEPAD (Ghana)
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Guatemala) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Haiti) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Honduras) -
 * Foreign Ministry (Jordan) -
 * General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation (Libya) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Luxembourg) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Macedonia) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Madagascar) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Mali) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Mauritania)
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Cooperation (Mauritius) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Mongolia) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Morocco) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Mozambique) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Nicaragua) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Palestinian National Authority) -
 * Ministry of External Relations (Panama) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Paraguay) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Rwanda) -
 * Ministry of External Affairs, International Financial Services, Information and Broadcasting (Saint Lucia) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Senegal) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Swaziland) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Timor-Leste) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Uruguay) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Venezuela) -
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Vietnam) -
 * Post-neoliberalism
 * Siege of Mariupol - urgently needs article importance re-evaluation
 * ✅, rated low-importance. See: WikiProject International relations/Assessment. Pilaz (talk) 20:44, 20 March 2022 (UTC)


 * List of diplomatic missions of Rojava
 * United Nations Department of General Assembly and Conference Management
 * War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine - urgently needs article importance re-evaluation
 * ✅, rated low-importance. See: WikiProject International relations/Assessment. Pilaz (talk) 20:44, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Importance scale
For the quality scale, see the Version 1.0 Editorial Team's grading scheme.

Suggested standards
''These are only suggested standards! These instructions are not set in stone.''

Bilateral relations
All articles regarding the bilateral relations between two countries should follow this format in order to have an organization within all such articles:


 * Country names are to be placed in alphabetical order.
 * Following community discussion (here) neither the noun (e.g. Germany–Italy relations) or the adjective form (e.g. German–Italian relations) is preferred.

All articles regarding the bilateral relations between two countries should roughly have met any of these criteria in order to meet notability for the bilateral relational articles.


 * 1) They have been engaged in a war.
 * 2) They engage in significant trade.
 * 3) They have been/are in an alliance.
 * 4) They share a border.
 * 5) They have been engaged in a significant diplomatic conflict.
 * 6) They have been engaged in a significant trade dispute.

Elements:
 * resident representatives
 * state visits
 * nationals of the other country
 * treaties
 * common memberships in multilateral organizations

Topics to cover:
 * date of recognition
 * diplomatic and consular representations and representatives (embassies, consulates)
 * cultural and scientific cooperation
 * non-governmental actors
 * trade volumes
 * state visits
 * bilateral agreements and treaties
 * nationals resident in the other country, migration between the two countries

Sources
 * directories of representations
 * trade, population statistics
 * studies on immigration/emigration
 * news reports on state visits
 * corpus of treaties
 * diplomatic cables

Embassy naming conventions
Suggest that all articles about a diplomatic mission building be named according to this naming convention:

{mission type } of {country }, {name of city}

For example:
 * Embassy of the United Kingdom, Berlin
 * High Commission of Cyprus, London (with a convenient redirect Embassy of Cyprus, London)
 * Apostolic Nunciature to Argentina and Apostolic Delegation to the Antilles
 * Consulate General of South Korea in Hong Kong (Consulates are not quite standardized yet)

Lists of diplomatic missions

 * Country names are to be placed in alphabetical order. If grouping countries by continent or region, place countries in the region their capital is in (which is usually the city where missions will be located).

Categories

 * List of
 * Category:Diplomacy
 * Category:Diplomatic missions by sending country
 * Category:International relations
 * Category:WikiProject International relations

Usage
or

Talk pages for bilateral articles should also include the WikiProject templates for each country.

Infobox

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