This volume gives a behind-the-scenes look at the work and lives of staff at US embassies around the world. Individuals from ambassadors to entry-level officers are profiled and one-day journals as well as stories from the field illuminate life in the Foreign Service. This edition has new sections on how an embassy works, how a career is shaped, how families navigate the lifestyle, joining the Foreign Service, the hiring process, and careers in all five foreign affairs agencies. There is no index. Foreign Service Books is a division of the American Foreign Service Association. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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The all-new third edition of the essential guide to the Foreign Service, "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.
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