Strengthening the Foreign Affairs Personnel System
Author | : Ivan Selin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ivan Selin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Commission on the Foreign Service Personnel System |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Diplomatic and consular service, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harry W. Kopp |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2017-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1626164703 |
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
Author | : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Diplomatic and consular service, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Committee on Foreign Affairs Personnel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Diplomatic and consular service, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Foreign Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Diplomatic and consular service, American |
ISBN | : |
Examines the last seventeen months of Woodrow Wilson's presidency and the part played by his wife during his isolation from the world because of illness.
Author | : Patrick E. Linehan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2019-08-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429717202 |
First published in 1976. This study is perhaps the most comprehensive, objective, and accurate analysis to date of the State Department's Foreign Service personnel system. Largely based on in-depth interviews of 330 Foreign Service officers ranging in rank from career minister to newly appointed officer, and extensively documented, the book examines the needs of the Foreign Service organization and its personnel and presents an analysis of the policies and procedures according to which it operates. Areas covered include recruitment, training, assignments, performance evaluation, promotions, and attrition. Also discussed in detail is the structure and functioning of the informal system of rules and regulations developed by Foreign Service officers; individuals use this system-which is outside of the prescribed channels--in attempting to influence their career development. Despite its specialized orientation, the study utilizes a methodology that can be applied to any large organization.
Author | : United States. Department of State |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Diplomatic and consular service, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Uzra S. Zeya |
Publisher | : Council on Foreign Relations Press |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2020-11-05 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780876091883 |
"America's network of international relationships is its foremost strategic asset, even as the agency charged with advancing U.S. interests through diplomacy-the Department of State (DOS)-has fallen into a deep and sustained period of crisis," write former diplomats Uzra S. Zeya and Jon Finer. In Revitalizing the State Department and American Diplomacy, they argue that "left unaddressed, the challenges that DOS faces risk causing irreparable damage to America's standing and influence in the world, ability to advance its interests overseas, and security and prosperity at home." The authors note that "despite the decades-long failure to implement essential reforms-and even in the face of sustained hostility from the [Donald J. Trump] administration-diplomacy remains the best tool the United States has to advance its foreign policy interests." "But many of the challenges facing the DOS have existed for decades," they explain. "Deficits in diversity, institutional culture, and professionalization are endemic to the State Department as an institution, and a diminished policy role for career officials persisted under previous administrations." Zeya and Finer identify areas in greatest need of reform and offer the following recommendations for the next secretary of state: Twenty-First-Century Statecraft. The State Department should develop "greater expertise in the range of issues that will be essential to American leadership in the twenty-first century," which include climate change, pandemic disease, shifting global power, economic competitiveness, equity, anticorruption, and technological transformation. Institutional Reform. "Make the State Department a diverse, equitable, and inclusive institution" by underscoring diversity as a national security priority, overcoming a risk-averse culture, delayering and decentralizing decision-making, and bridging the career-noncareer divide. Workforce Expansion. "Urgent attention needs to be devoted to revitalizing the professional path and retention of the current DOS workforce," which has seen "a brain drain of senior talent" and "Civil Service staffing frozen at 2017 levels." The authors suggest greater flexibility in career paths and enabling return, as well as rebooting and expanding training and continuous learning. Beyond the Near Term. "The State Department would also benefit from some longer-term thinking" including amending the Foreign Service Act, implementing unified national security budgeting, and establishing a Diplomatic Reserve Corps. "When properly empowered and entrusted with significant responsibilities, American diplomats play essential roles in consequential outcomes for the country," the authors write. Revitalizing the State Department and restoring diplomacy "means addressing deficiencies in DOS policy focus and capacity, institutional culture, and workforce diversity and flexibility, while laying the groundwork to cement these and other changes through legislation," the authors conclude. Finer was chief of staff and director of policy planning at the U.S. Department of State. He is currently on leave as an adjunct senior fellow at CFR. Zeya is CEO and president of the Alliance for Peacebuilding and previously had a twenty-seven-year diplomatic career.