The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2013

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JULY-AUGUST 2013 5 July-August 2013 Volume 90, No. 7-8 FOREIGN SERVICE AFSA NEWS Presenting the 2013 AFSA Merit Award Winners / 49 State VP: On Becoming Foreign Service Policymakers / 50 Retiree VP: Déjà Vu All Over Again / 51 2013-2015 Governing Board Election Results/ 51 AFSA and Santa Fe Retirees Sponsor Symposium / 52 Book Notes: Living Longer, Stronger and Happier / 53 2013 AFSA Awards Winners / 53 AFSA Best Essay Winner: Some Nails, Some Tape / 56 PMA Funds AFSA Scholarship / 56 2013 George F. Kennan Award Winner / 57 Sponsors: Supporting New Arrivals from the Get-Go / 58 FSYF 2013 Contest and Award Winners / 59 COLUMNS President’s Views / 7 Passing the Baton BY SUSAN R . JOHNSON FS Know-How / 17 Retirement Planning Shortfalls BY JOHN K . NALAND DEPARTMENTS Letters / 8 Talking Points / 12 Books / 61 Local Lens / 70 MARKETPLACE Classifieds / 63 Real Estate / 66 Index to Advertisers / 68 On the cover:“Rooted”by Allison Davis.This graphite pencil drawing was one of Ms. Davis’entries in AFSA’s 2013 Art Merit Award Competition.Vice president of the National Art Honor Society at the Ameri- can International School–Israel, Ms. Davis plans to pursue painting with oils, acrylic and water color, as well as methods of drawing, when she begins her freshman year at Abilene Christian University in the fall. FOCUS ON PROFESSIONAL ETHICS Ethics for the Professional Diplomat / 22 A code of ethics is essential to give diplomatic practitioners guidance with respect to personal, as well as official, boundaries. Here are some components of such a code. BY EDWARD MARKS The Role of Dissent in National Security, Law and Conscience / 27 One of three officers to resign from the Foreign Service a decade ago in protest of the Iraq War revisits the ethical implications of that decision. BY ANN WR I GHT My Resignation in Retrospect / 32 Those of us in the Foreign Service must keep our moral and professional compass calibrated to that point where integrity and love of country declare, “No further.” BY JOHN BRADY K I ES L I NG Some Thoughts on Dissent / 36 All government employees should be free to speak their minds as openly as possible without endangering national security—a term regrettably all too often used as an excuse to shut them up. BY JOHN H . BROWN Loyalty: The Hallmark of the Professional Diplomat / 40 Once a final decision is made by our political masters, it is the responsibility of the professional diplomat to execute it—or step aside and let another do so. BY ROBERT WI L L I AM DRY FEATURE FS Heritage: Lucile Atcherson Curtis, the First Female U.S. Diplomat / 44 In 1922, the first female permitted to take the Foreign Service exam passed with the third-highest score that year. But it was only the first of many hurdles she faced. BY MOL LY M . WOOD