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- Inside a U.S. Embassy: Diplomacy at Work, All-New Third Edition of the Essential Guide to the Foreign Service
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
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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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vi
- Introductory Section
- Why This Book?
- p. 1
- What Is the Foreign Service?
- pp. 2-3
- A Consular Officer in Chennai, India
- pp. 120-122
- A Principal Officer in Recife, Brazil
- pp. 122-123
- An Economic Officer in Dhaka, Bangladesh
- pp. 124-125
- A Consul General in Vladivostok, Russia
- pp. 126-128
- A Public Affairs Officer in Baghdad, Iraq
- pp. 155-157
- A Regional Medical Officer in Moscow, Russia
- pp. 160-161
- A Public Affairs Officer in Guangzhou, China
- pp. 162-164
- A Consular Officer in Guangzhou, China
- pp. 164-165
- A Political Officer in Dhi Qar, Iraq
- pp. 165-167
- A Consular Officer in Shanghai, China
- pp. 168-170
- An Ambassador in Harare, Zimbabwe
- pp. 170-172
- Democracy Under Construction: Maldives, 2006
- pp. 174-175
- After the Asian Tsunami: Thailand, 2004
- pp. 176-177
- Ten for a Dollar: Liberia, 1996
- pp. 178-179
- Madonna in Kunduz: Afghanistan, 2008
- pp. 179-181
- Surviving a Terrorist Attack: Yemen, 2008
- pp. 182-183
- One Riot, One Ambassador: Macedonia, 1999
- pp. 184-186
- Anatomy of an Evacuation: Guinea, 2007
- pp. 186-189
- Cyclone Sidr Relief: Bangladesh, 2007
- pp. 189-190
- A Hot August in Kirkuk: Iraq, 2008
- pp. 190-192
- A New Country is Born: Kosovo, 2008
- pp. 196-198
- Watching Your Embassy Burn: Serbia, 2008
- pp. 198-200
- A Prayer for Democracy: Burma, 1998
- pp. 204-206
Additional Information
ISBN
9781612344676
Related ISBN(s)
9780964948846
MARC Record
OCLC
966854470
Pages
280
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No