The Foreign Service Journal, January 2009

J A N U A R Y 2 0 0 9 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 3 F O C U S O N T R A N S F O R M A T I O N A L D I P L O M A C Y G LOBAL R EPOSITIONING IN P ERSPECTIVE / 18 Global repositioning is a key element of Secretary of State Rice’s signature initiative. Here is an in-depth look at the program. By Shawn Dorman T HE B RAVE N EW W ORLD OF D EMOCRACY P ROMOTION / 31 U.S. democracy promotion policy appears to be at a crossroads, with big divisions within both parties over how much of it we should be doing. By Robert McMahon MEPI: A DDING TO THE D IPLOMATIC T OOLBOX / 40 Despite many obstacles, the Middle East Partnership Initiative has come a long way in the past five years. By Peter F. Mulrean F E A T U R E S M ENTAL H EALTH C ARE AT S TATE : A B ROKEN S YSTEM / 46 Foreign Service employees have incentives to hide their mental health treatment or, worse, to let their problems go untreated. By Anonymous T HE B LACK S WAN C OMES H OME / 48 A letter discovered in the Embassy Paris mailroom in 2003 helped solve a 60-year-old mystery. Here is the rest of the story. By Douglas W. Wells C ONTENTS January 2009 Volume 86, No. 1 Cover and inside illustrations by David Wink P RESIDENT ’ S V IEWS / 5 Renewing American Diplomacy By John K. Naland S PEAKING O UT / 13 Let’s Help “H” Make the Case for State By Stetson Sanders L ETTER FROM THE E DITOR / 16 By Steven Alan Honley R EFLECTIONS / 76 Dean Rusk and Rolling Thunder By John J. St. John L ETTERS / 6 C YBERNOTES / 10 M ARKETPLACE / 12 B OOKS / 67 I NDEX TO A DVERTISERS / 74 J O U R N A L OREIGN ERVICE S F