All-new third edition of the essential guide to the Foreign Service
This book provides reflections and perspectives on the realities of Foreign Service life as experienced by members of the Foreign Service community around the world.
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 ...
In Embassies Under Siege, eyewitnesses present nine representative crises in vivid detail, examining the recurring challenges posed to diplomatic missions. The authors, all career Foreign Service officers, provide more than...
What do the men and women of America's diplomatic corps do?
First Line of Defense: Ambassadors, Embassies, and American Interests Abroad
In this first-ever book about the association's more than 90-year history, author Harry Kopp chronicles the evolution of the Foreign Service and the events and personalities that shaped AFSA into what it is today.
In this first-ever insider account of the American Embassy takeover in 1979, Massoumeh Ebtekar sets out to correct 20 years of misrepresentation by the Western media of what the aims...
The splendid images in this book take the reader into the rooms in the heart of buildings where diplomatic history lives.
"If you ever wondered who becomes an American ambassador and why, this is the book for you.
Its captain, Lieutenant Commander James J. Hughes, U.S. Navy, and his executive officer were badly wounded. The sailors fired their antiquated Lewis machine guns at the planes. With the main deck awash, Hughes gave the order to abandon ...