| | |  | Spyware | Home » » » » Inside a U.S. Embassy: Diplomacy at Work, The Essential Guide to the Foreign Service, 3rd Edition | | | | | | | Description: | | 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. | | | Product Details: | | | Paperback:
| 280 pages | | Publisher:
| Potomac Books Inc. | | Publication Date:
| April 30, 2011 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0964948842 | | Product Length:
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Great look inside the U.S. Foreign ServiceApr 25, 2011
By Global_Nomad
This book goes far beyond the traditional image of a U.S. diplomat abroad, providing the perspectives of people in all of the Foreign Service careers and some of their family members.
Part I profiles members of the Foreign Service in the different generalist `cones' (economic, political, consular, and management) and specialist career tracks (medical doctors, office management specialists, etc).
The second part explains how all the different positions examined in the book work together under the head of the mission. There is also an interesting piece in Part II that provides insight into what it takes to coordinate an official visit from the perspectives of four Foreign Service officers working on it. The day-in-the life journals in Part III open a window into the variety of work that people in these different positions perform in a given day.
Part IV is a series of very different 1-3 page stories (`tales from the field'). Where Part III focuses more on everyday work and life, these stories in Part IV are focused on more extraordinary times. A couple of these center around dangerous situations from the perspective of being `on the ground' in the embassy as it as attacked - or coordinating the evacuation of US citizens from a foreign country during a time of upheaval.
Some of these stories are really touching and inspiring - like that of a specialist in Liberia who finds himself in a unique position to make a small difference in the local community, or an Ambassador in the Balkans who is able to calm an angry riot and prevent the mob's scapegoating of some innocent refugees.
The guide to the hiring process in Part V is helpful. Instead of focusing on just passing the written exam like most test prep books, it guides the applicant through the entirety of the process. A lot of junior officers are also included in various parts of the book, which provides a solid view of what to expect at the start of the career.
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This is the new 2011 editionSep 15, 2011
By Shawn Dorman
FYI, this is the Kindle edition of the all-new 2011 edition of Inside a U.S. Embassy. The full title is Inside a U.S. Embassy: Diplomacy at Work, and though the subhead is currently listed incorrectly on this page, the file is in fact the newest edition, 2011.
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An Insightful Inside LookMay 22, 2012
By Kate S.
"Foreign Service diplomats and specialists are truly the unsung heroes of American foreign policy." This statement embodies the all-new third edition of Inside a U.S. Embassy: DIPLOMACY AT WORK. The editor, Shawn Dorman, is a former diplomat and clearly no stranger to the inner workings of the Foreign Service. This book is indeed an essential guide to all things diplomatic as she elaborates upon the broad spectrum of positions, personalities and experience that work abroad in a U.S. Embassy entails.
The five sections carefully dissect and outline the roles of each essential officer, the lives that they lead abroad, journal entries detailing personal experience, the embassy machine in action, closing with tips and advice for prospective entry level officers. Not only does Dorman relay these details through matter-of-fact descriptions, engaging diagrams, lists, maps and photos from around the world, she also incorporates an empathetic aspect through inclusion of the emotions that accompany international friendships, constant uprooting of families, the trials of culture barriers, and many other obstacles that our nation's Foreign Service Officers face every day - in service of us. We are finally able to get an inside view into the lives of everyone - spouses, entry level officers, ambassadors, security officers and the like - who plays an essential role in America's foreign diplomacy in places far and wide - from a Tandem in India to a mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to everywhere in between. This is truly a guide into the inner workings of the machine that is a U.S. Embassy and Dorman paints a thorough, realistic, and all-encompassing picture of every working screw. This book would be useful for anyone thinking about a diplomatic career or anyone curious about what our diplomats do inside those embassy gates.
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