The Foreign Service Journal, January-February 2024

Cover 1
Contents 5
Focus on Centennial Year Kickoff 18
AFSA’s First Hundred Years 18
Lest We Forget: The Importance of Leadership in a Time of Adversity 29
From the FSJ Archive: The Journal on 100 Years of AFSA 32
Feature 34
The High School Foreign Service Association: Engaging Aspiring Diplomats 34
Perspectives 7
President’s Views—2024: Celebration, Reflection—and Looking Forward 7
Letter from the Editor—Kicking Off the Centennial 9
Speaking Out—State’s Pledge to Stop Promoting Bullies 16
Reflections—The Opening of U.S. Embassy Nuku`alofa 87
Local Lens—Hanoi, Vietnam 90
Departments 10
Letters 10
Talking Points 12
In Memory 74
Books 78
Marketplace 81
Real Estate 81
Classifieds 85
Index to Advertisers 86
AFSA News 39
Celebrating the Foreign Service and AFSA Centennial 39
State VP Voice—New Year’s Resolutions in Leadership and Labor Management 40
USAID VP Voice—What’s in Store for ’24 41
FAS VP Voice—It’s Not All Unicorns and Rainbows? 42
FCS VP Voice—No Wind in Our Sails 43
AFSA Congratulates JSTP Graduates 43
Retiree VP Voice—Retiree Resolutions 44
Webinar—The View from Washington 44
AFSA Good Works—Scholarship Program 45
AFSA Honors 2023 Sinclaire Language Award Recipients 46
AFSA Governing Board Meeting, November 15, 2023 46
AFSA Tax Guide—2023 Federal and State Tax Provisions for the Foreign Service 47
AFSA Tax Guide—2023 State Tax Provisions 47
AFSA Tax Guide—2023 State Pension and Annuity Tax 68

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