Diplomacy at Work
THIRD EDITION, 2011
Shawn Dorman, Editor and Project Director
Ian Houston, AFSA Executive Director and Book Project Adviser
Susan Maitra and Steve Honley, Associate Editors
Kathleen Dyson, Designer
Very special thanks to all the Foreign Service authors who shared their experiences for this book.
With warmest appreciation to the AFSA interns who helped out on the book project: Danielle Derbes, Laura Caton, Jennifer Thompson, Mark Hay, Ariana Austin, and Betsy Swift. Thank you to the AFSA Governing Board and to the members of the Inside Embassy Advisory Committee: John Naland, Ian Houston, Steve Kashkett, James Yorke, Susan Maitra, Rachel Friedland, Deborah Graze, Joe Bruns, Francesca Kelly, Austin Tracy, Yvette Malcioln, and Francisco Zamora. For expert proofing, many thanks go to Patricia Linderman and James Yorke. Special thanks to Kelly Adams-Smith for her support, and for writing. Much appreciation to the State Department’s Office of Recruitment, Examination, and Employment, for making good use of the book from the very beginning. Thanks go to Potomac Books Publisher Sam Dorrance for his guidance, and to AFSA Executive Director Ian Houston, AFSA Treasurer Andrew Winter, and attorney Eric Rayman, for helping FSBooks become “real.” And finally, deepest appreciation to Foreign Service Journal Editor Steve Honley, for always saying yes to another look, and to FSJ Senior Editor Susan Maitra for her wise counsel, endless patience, and support for the project.
Cover Photos: Front cover, from left: USAID Egypt Mission Director Hilda Arellano at a water project by the Nile River; Provincial Reconstruction Team Leader Jim DeHart in Panjshir, Afghanistan; Foreign Agricultural Service Attache Holly Higgins with villagers in Lucknow, India; Deputy Chief of Mission Dan Picutta, EAP Assistant Secretary Chris Hill, Climate Change Special Envoy Todd Stern, and Acting State Spokesperson Robert Wood at a meeting with Chinese officials in Beijing. Back cover, from left: Ambassador Charles Ray at a USAID/World Health Organization event in Zimbabwe; Consular Officer Carolyn Dubrovsky at work in Kathmandu; Consulate Tijuana Foreign Service National Edgar Zamudio in Haiti for earthquake relief work.
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