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April 2017

The Foreign Service Journal covers foreign affairs from an insider's perspective, providing thought-provoking articles on international issues, the practice of diplomacy and the U.S. Foreign Service. Including the AFSA News section, The Journal is published monthly (January-February and July-August issues combined) by the American Foreign Service Association.

The April issue focuses on U.S.-Europe relations.

We always welcome short, focused letters about FSJ content; please send them to journal@afsa.org.

FOCUS ON U.S.-EUROPE RELATIONS

The Trans-Atlantic Partnership

Both Europe and the United States have a vital stake in preserving and improving the trans-Atlantic relationship.

BY MENZIES CAMPBELL

The Challenges Facing Europe

The questions hanging over the E.U.-U.S. relationship are made all the more daunting by Europe’s own difficulties—economic stagnation and a demographic crisis.

BY GILES MERRITT

The United States and Europe: Toward a Global Atlantic

Globalization and digitalization present as fundamental a challenge to the U.S.-European alliance as the task of rebuilding after World War II.

BY JOHN CHRISTIAN KORNBLUM

From the FSJ Archives: The United States and Europe

During the mid-1960s, as tensions grew between the United States and Europe, many sought a re-evaluation and updating of trans-Atlantic ties.

BY JAMES A. RAMSEY

FEATURE

Oral History in Real Time: The Maidan Revolution

Embassy Kyiv’s oral history project will prove useful to historians and may be a model for other posts interested in instituting “exit interviews” of departing staff.

BY JOSEPH ROZENSHTEIN

PERSPECTIVES

President's Views

Counting on Diplomacy

BY BARBARA STEPHENSON

Speaking Out

Why We Need a Better Intranet and How to Get It

BY BRADLEY MEACHAM

Reflections

That Time I Was Acting Dean of a Mongolian University

BY NICOLE SCHAEFER-MCDANIEL

DEPARTMENTS

Letters-Plus

Diplomacy: What We Do, and Why We Do It

BY THOMAS M. COUNTRYMAN

AFSA NEWS

State VP Voice

Open Season for New MSI Award Program

BY ANGIE BRYAN