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

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 profe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: American Foreign Service Association
Otros Autores: Dorman, Shawn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Foreign Service Books, 2011.
Edición:3rd ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Aermenia, China, Morocco, Egypt, Ukraine, India, Russia, Abu Dhabi, Haiti, Mexico, Kuwait, Yemen, Afthanistan, 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
  • Sabatticals, 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; Afgthanistan, 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.