COVER STORY
Here are the highlights of USAID’s ongoing Transformation initiative, undertaken to better meet the development challenges of the 21st century.
BY CHRIS MILLIGAN
FOCUS ON AFSA AWARDS: HONORING EXCELLENCE AND CONSTRUCTIVE DISSENT
A conversation with Ambassador Hank Cohen, the recipient of AFSA’s Award for Lifetime Contributions to American Diplomacy.
Profiles of the 2019 recipients of AFSA’s Awards for Constructive Dissent
Profiles of the 2019 recipients of AFSA’s Awards for Outstanding Performance
FEATURES
A sailor shares valuable lessons on dissent that apply in any enterprise.
BY JIMMY DRENNAN
A consular officer remembers the personalities he encountered on the job.
BY CHARLES “TOM” OWENS
FS KNOW-HOW
Here’s the skinny on some of the new but lesser-known communication technologies that can make living abroad easier.
BY DANIEL MORRIS
EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT
A unique “immersion” program offers students insight into a career in diplomacy.
BY MARIETTE A. BOUTROS
Pointers on how to get an internship and make it an effective career-builder.
BY JACOB BORST
PERSPECTIVES
Back to the Gilded Age?
BY ERIC RUBIN
Foreign Service Excellence and Silver Linings
BY SHAWN DORMAN
In Support of Professional Nonpartisan Diplomacy
Living Two Lives
BY JOSH GLAZEROFF
AFSA NEWS
Understanding Why People Leave the Foreign Service
BY TOM YAZDGERDI
Prosperity, Security and Global Power Competition
BY KIM GREENPLATE
