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Loading... Inside a U.S. Embassy: How the Foreign Service Works for America (edition 2009)by Shawn Dorman
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is the official FSO guide book – edited by Shawn Dorman but, in effect, written by 30 or so Foreign Service Officers in their own words. It gives a very good insight into the work of the United States State Department offices and embassies throughout the world and the stories – many in the a day in the life format - of the personnel as they perform their duties on our behalf. The accounts range from the terrifying – coups and evacuations – to the Rats and Resources of the remoter outposts. They all fulfill the task identified by one Ambassador ” ..the Ambassadors and the teams that work for them have prevented coups, saved lives, and very substantially transformed some of the countries in which they have served”. It is that sense of service that is clearly apparent in this fascinating book. The Peace Corps publishes stories written by volunteers of country of service life. Usually the stories are well written and informative but the books are produced inexpensively, softbound with grainy black and white photos, and they're typically handed out free of charge at recruiting events to applicants. This book is very much the same thing but for the Foreign Service rather than the Peace Corps. In fact, about 5 years ago I believe this book was a freebie. No longer. Even so, I would still recommend this book if only to those who are applying for the Foreign Service or considering it as a career. It is a good companion piece to the more academic Career Diplomacy. Read this book for real life stories about a day in the life. no reviews | add a review
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. No library descriptions found. |
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This is a must read for anyone going to into international diplomacy/politics. Very comprehensive with a lot of information.