The Foreign Service Journal, June 2018

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JUNE 2018 17 C yberseek.org was created in November 2016 by the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology tomake it easier for cybersecurity job seekers to find positions within the industry. The site offers an overview of the cybersecurity field, including an interactive map allowing users to view information about the supply and demand of cybersecurity job openings by location. Users can searchmore than 300 metropolitan areas to see total job openings, worker supply, the area’s top cyberse- curity jobs by title and other pertinent information. The interactive map is accompa- nied by the “Career Pathway,” which provides information on different types of positions; common job titles, salaries, online job openings; in-demand skills; and education and certifications related to careers in cybersecurity. It also illustrates how an individual can advance in a cyber- security career, starting with four different entry-level positions and showing typical paths to mid- and advanced-level jobs. SITE OF THE MONTH: CYBERSEEK.ORG Ronan Farrow Campaigns to Put Diplomacy Back Up Front P ulitzer Prize–winning journalist (and lawyer and former State Department adviser) Ronan Farrow has been mak- ing the rounds with his new book, War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence , telling everyone that the State Department and diplomacy are in trouble. Farrow looks beyond the Trump administration to show how diplomacy has been sidelined in favor of military engagement for many years, and espe- cially since 9/11. He advocates putting diplomacy back on a strong footing. “I don’t think it’s about wanting diplo- macy to take center stage, or to eclipse our military national-security instru- ments,” he tells New York Magazine . “It’s about calling for appropriate balance between these parts of our government and ensuring that military solutions aren’t the first and only ones on the table. Diplomatic solutions are flawed and complicated. But we also desperately need them.” In a discussion with Fareed Zakaria on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Farrow makes the case for the kind of expertise career diplomats bring to the job. He points to past diplomatic successes that were only possible because diplomats were on the job, including on the tough- est issues like North Korea. “America is undergoing a fundamen- tal transformation in how it relates to the rest of the world. We have fewer and fewer negotiators and diplomats and subject matter experts on the kinds of complicated situations like Iran and North Korea…and more and more soldiers and spies making policy,” Farrow says. “The top nuclear arms expert at the State Department was fired unceremo- niously in the first days of the Trump administration. … You can see the lack of logic in that,” he adds. n This edition of Talking Points was compiled by Donna Gorman, Dmitry Filipoff and Shawn Dorman.