Inside a U.S. Embassy Diplomacy at Work, All-New Third Edition of the Essential Guide to the Foreign Service / Shawn Dorman, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

American Foreign Service Association.

Dorman, Shawn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomatic and consular service, American.

American Foreign Service Association.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Foreign Service Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The all-new third edition of the essential guide to the Foreign Service, "Inside a U.S. Embassy" is widely recognized as the essential guide to the Foreign Service. This all-new third edition takes readers to more than fifty U.S. missions around the world, introducing Foreign Service professionals and providing detailed descriptions of their jobs and firsthand accounts of diplomacy in action. In addition to profiles of diplomats and specialists around the world from the ambassador to the consular officer, the public diplomacy officer to the security specialist is a selection from more than twenty countries of day-in-the-life accounts, each describing an actual day on the job. Personal reports from the field give a sense of the extraordinary challenges the coups, the natural disasters, the civil wars and rewards of representing America to the world. "Inside a U.S. Embassy" includes new chapters on the highly competitive Foreign Service entrance process, Foreign Service life outside the embassy, and briefings on topics such as handling high-level visits and service in war zones.

Contents:

Why this book?

What is foreign service?

U.S. presence in the world in 2011

Map: Department of State locations

Flow chart: foreign affairs agencies inside U.S. embassies

PART 1. Profiles: Who works in an embassy? Essays from diplomats serving in Armenia, China, Morocco, Egypt, Ukraine, India, Russia, Abu Dhabi, Haiti, Mexico, Kuwait, Yemen, Afghanistan, Peru, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Austria, South Africa, Kenya, Thailand, and Indonesia

PART II. Foreign service work and life: embassy, employee, family: The embassy and the country team

FSN-FSO relationship

The Foreign Service on call

The Foreign Service life

Sabbaticals, fellowships, and details

What if I disagree? Dissent in the Foreign Service

Tai Tai: a diplomat's wife in the Middle Kingdom

A non-traditional tandem in India

Waking up in Vietnam

A cross-cultural friendship

A spouse at work in the mission

PART III. A day in the life of the Foreign Service: one-day journals (from consular officers in India, Brazil, Bangladesh, Russia, Burkina Faso, Tajikistan, Honduras, Sweden, Mauritania, Vietnam, Argentina, the Congo, Austria, Costa Rica, Guinea, Haiti, Iraq, Mexico, China, and Zimbabwe

PART IV. The Foreign Service in action: tales from the field (essays from Maldives 2006; Thailand, 2004; Liberia, 1996; Afghanistan, 2008; Yemen, 2008; Macedonia, 1999; Guinea, 2007; Bangladesh, 2007; Iraq, 2008; Egypt, 2005; Austria, 2005; Kosovo, 2008; Serbia, 2008; China, 2008; Saudi Arabia, 2004; Burma, 1998

PART V. So you want to join the Foreign Service? A guide to State Department hiring

Online resources.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781612344676

1612344674

OCLC:

759525258