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Languages : en
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A Review of U.S. Diplomatic Readiness: Addressing the Staffing and Foreign Language Challenges Facing the Foreign Service, S. Hrg. 111-404, September 24, 2009, 111-1 Hearing, *.
Author: A Review of U.S. Diplomatic Readiness
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of ColumbiaPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A Review of U.S. Diplomatic Readiness
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of ColumbiaPublisher:
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Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 173
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A Review of U.s. Diplomatic Readiness
Author: United States CongressPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978261891
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A review of U.S. diplomatic readiness: addressing the staffing and foreign language challenges facing the foreign service : hearing before the Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first se
A Review of U. S. Diplomatic Readiness
Author: United States SenatePublisher:
ISBN: 9781701350373
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A review of U.S. diplomatic readiness: addressing the staffing and foreign language challenges facing the foreign service: hearing before the Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first se
Career Diplomacy
Author: Harry W. KoppPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1589017544
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Career Diplomacy—now in its second edition—is an insider's guide that examines the foreign service as an institution, a profession, and a career. Harry W. Kopp and Charles A. Gillespie, both of whom had long and distinguished careers in the foreign service, provide a full and well-rounded picture of the organization, its place in history, its strengths and weaknesses, and its role in American foreign affairs. Based on their own experiences and through interviews with over 100 current and former foreign service officers and specialists, the authors lay out what to expect in a foreign service career, from the entrance exam through midcareer and into the senior service—how the service works on paper, and in practice. The second edition addresses major changes that have occurred since 2007: the controversial effort to build an expeditionary foreign service to lead the work of stabilization and reconstruction in fragile states; deepening cooperation with the U.S. military and the changing role of the service in Iraq and Afghanistan; the ongoing surge in foreign service recruitment and hiring at the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development; and the growing integration of USAID’s budget and mission with those of the Department of State.
Career Diplomacy
Author: Harry W. KoppPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1626164703
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Career Diplomacy is an insider's guide to the Foreign Service as an institution, a profession, and a career. In this thoroughly revised third edition, Kopp and Naland provide an up-to-date, authoritative, and candid account of the life and work of professional US diplomats, who advance and protect this country’s national security interests around the globe. The authors explore the five career tracks—consular, political, economic, management, and public diplomacy—through their own experience and through interviews with more than a hundred current and former members of the Foreign Service. They lay out what to expect in a Foreign Service career, from the entrance exam through midcareer and into the senior service—how to get in, get around, and get ahead. New in the third edition: • A discussion of the relationship of the Foreign Service and the Department of State to other agencies, and to the combatant commands • An expanded analysis of hiring procedures• Commentary on challenging management issues in the Department of State, including the proliferation of political appointments in high-level positions and the difficulties of running an agency with employees in two personnel systems (Civil Service and Foreign Service) • A fresh examination of the changing nature and demographics of the Foreign Service
Improvement in Standards of Language Proficiency and in Recruiting for the Foreign Service
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
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Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Career Diplomacy
Author: Harry W. KoppPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1647121361
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In this new and thoroughly revised edition of Career Diplomacy, Foreign Service veterans Harry W. Kopp and John K. Naland lay out what to expect in a Foreign Service career, from the entrance exam through midcareer and into the senior service—how to get in, get around, and get ahead. This guide offers readers a candid look at the profession.
Inside a U.S. Embassy
Author: Shawn DormanPublisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 0964948842
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Who works in an embassy? What do diplomats actually do? Inside a U.S. Embassy offers an up-close and personal look into the lives of the diplomats and specialists who make up the U.S. Foreign Service, taking readers inside embassies and consulates in more than fifty countries, providing detailed descriptions of Foreign Service jobs and first-hand accounts of diplomacy in action. Gain a sense of the key role played by each member of an embassy team from Paris to Kabul, from Bogota to Beijing, and places in between. Travel into the rainforests of Thailand with an environmental affairs officer, face rampaging militias with a political officer in East Timor, and join an ambassador on a midnight trip into a Macedonian refugee camp to quell a riot. The book includes profiles of diplomats and specialists around the world serving in Foreign Service positions -- from the ambassador to the security officer, the consular officer to the IT specialist. Also included is a selection of day-in-the-life accounts from seventeen different countries, each describing an actual day on the job. The story section includes twenty-six tales from the field that give a sense of the extraordinary: the coups, the evacuations, the civil wars, the hardships and rewards of representing America to the world. Inside a U.S. Embassy was published by the American Foreign Service Association in 2003, and updated and revised in 2005. Over 70,000 copies have sold.