The Foreign Service Journal, April 2018

42 APRIL 2018 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Steering a dynamic and adventurous professional magazine involves challenges as well as accomplishments. BY STEVEN ALAN HONL EY NOW IT CAN BE TOLD W hen the Journal editor invited me to reflect on my tenure (2001- 2014) as editor-in-chief of The Foreign Service Journal for this issue, I was delighted to accept. After all, who doesn’t enjoy rehashing past triumphs? With the help of a true dream team—Shawn Dorman, Susan Maitra and Ed Miltenberger, all of whom are still on the job, I hasten to note—along with dedicated Editorial Board volunteers and other AFSA staff, the magazine became an adven- turous, thoroughly professional publication by time I stepped down. DEFINING DIPLOMACY for YEARS Above inSILVERFOILonCover