The Foreign Service Journal, February 2012

J O U R N A L OREIGN ERVICE S F P RESIDENT ’ S V IEWS / 5 Essential Ingredients for a Professional Career Foreign Service By Susan R. Johnson S PEAKING O UT / 13 Implementing the QDDR at Chief-of-Mission Level By Edward Marks R EFLECTIONS / 64 My Dog, the Spy By Ginny Young L ETTERS / 6 F OREIGN S ERVICE C ROSSWORD P UZZLE S OLUTION / 7 C YBERNOTES / 9 M ARKETPLACE / 10 B OOKS / 57 I NDEX TO A DVERTISERS / 62 Cover illustration by Jeff Lau F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 2 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 3 C ONTENTS February 2012 Volume 89, No. 2 F O C U S O N T h e E u r o Z o n e D e b t C r i s i s T HE D EBT C RISIS , THE T RANS -A TLANTIC A LLIANCE AND S TATE / 17 The European debt crisis should be a wake-up call for the Foreign Service to adapt to new challenges. By Alan Larson W HY THE E URO C RISIS M ATTERS / 23 As Washington scrambles to cope with the economic fallout, it must reassess Europe’s reliability as a strategic partner. By Bruce Stokes F S H E R I T A G E U.S. D IPLOMATS AND THE S MITHSONIAN / 27 The next time you visit a Smithsonian museum, take pride in the role our predecessors played in making it a reality. By Luciano Mangiafico A F S A N E W S 2011 T AX G UIDE / 31 T HE W ILLIAM R. R IVKIN A WARD : M AKING AN I NDISPENSABLE C ONTRIBUTION / 31 N EWS B RIEFS / 32 AFSA H OSTS P ANEL ON THE 20 TH A NNIVERSARY OF THE USSR’ S F ALL / 50 AFSA’ S H IGH S CHOOL E SSAY C ONTEST O FFERS N EW P RIZE / 51 AAFSW/S ECRETARY OF S TATE A WARD -W INNERS / 51 L EAVE A L EGACY WITH A R EAL E STATE P LANNED G IFT / 53 T RANSITION C ENTER S CHEDULE / 54 C LASSIFIEDS / 54