The Foreign Service Journal, June 2018

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JUNE 2018 9 Bokelman shares the inside story of one recent success. This is the first in a series of “DS Diplomacy Works” dispatches from the field. Elsewhere, in FS Know-How, Donna Scaramastra Gorman presents tips for FS members on buying a house. In FS Heritage, FSO Chris Teal discusses the pioneering role of America’s first African- American diplomat, Ebenezer Bassett. A new discussion of support for FS chil- dren with special needs—begun inMarch with a Speaking Out column by Kathi Silva, and followed by a response from the direc- tor of MED in April—continues this month in Letters-Plus with a contribution from Kirsten Bauman, “Foreign Service ‘Some Needs’ Kids: Suffering in Silence.” Our Family Member Matters column— “An Interview with My Son” by Jessica Powley Hayden—features a child’s thoughts about his father’s unaccompa- nied assignment to Iraq. In our biannual Education Supple- ment, education professionals and FS family members Hannah Morris and Lauren Steed offer a new approach to “Creating a College List.” And Family Liai- son Office Education and Youth Officer Marybeth Hunter looks at “The Vocational Education Option: A Student’s Search for Meaning in Today’s Economy.” Finally, with a new Secretary of State at work, AFSA is looking ahead. In President’s Views, Ambassador Barbara Stephenson details what it will take to restore American diplomatic capability t o ensure the United States retains its global leadership role. n LETTER FROM THE EDITOR The Cyber Challenge BY SUSAN MA I TRA C hris Painter, the first head of the State Department’s pioneering Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues, calls cyber diplo- macy “the quintessential 21st-century issue of our foreign policy.” With no physical territory, cyberspace is a dynamic realm defined solely by the ever-changing capabilities of information and communications technologies. It harbors immense potential for both good and evil, and it poses a great and urgent challenge to diplomacy. In thismonth’s focus, we begin to explore this new frontier. As Painter explains in “Diplomacy in Cyberspace,” howwe develop and use cyber technologies has tremendous economic, security and socio- cultural implications for humanity. Ambassador (ret.) Gina Abercrombie- Winstanley illuminates another facet. In “A Diplomat in a Cyber World: Working with CYBERCOM,” she discusses the political adviser’s vital role in facilitating two-way communication and increasing CYBERCOM’s understanding of State’s work to establish and solidify international norms for cyber behavior. We also turned to the FSJ archive for a sampling of Journal offerings on “Technol- ogy and Diplomacy” going back to 1971. Our cover story, “DS Diplomacy Works—Breaking Up a Child Porn Traf- ficking Ring,” spot- lights the vital work of diplomacy in the arena of transnational crime. Diplomatic Security Special Agent Kala Susan Maitra is the managing editor of The Foreign Service Journal.