The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2006

J U LY- A U G U S T 2 0 0 6 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 19 y all accounts, the Diplomatic Readiness Initiative revitalized the Foreign Service during Colin Powell’s tenure as Secretary of State. But has it positioned State (and the other foreign affairs agencies) well enough to meet the challenges of “transformational diplomacy,” the next big thing after the DRI? There are certainly grounds for optimism. Business Week recently conducted a poll indicating that the State Department ranked third, behind only Disney and Google, as an ideal employer of undergraduates. The FBI and CIA C O V E R S T O R Y T RANSFORMING D IPLOMACY AT S TATE O BTAINING THE NECESSARY RESOURCES TO IMPLEMENT TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY WILL BE THE KEY TEST OF S ECRETARY OF S TATE R ICE ’ S COMMITMENT TO HER VISION . B Y S HAWN Z ELLER B Brian Aggeler