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CIAO DATE: 10/2009

Career Diplomacy

Harry W. Kopp, Charles A. Gillespie

August 2008

Georgetown University Press

Abstract

Table of Contents

Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the U.S. Foreign Service
Harry W. Kopp, Charles A. Gillespie

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. What is the Foreign Service?
2. History
3. The Foreign Service Today

Part I. The Institution

Part II. The Profession
4. Form and Content
5. Stabilization and Reconstruction in Iraq
6. Politics and Professionalism

Part III. The Career
7. Stability and Change
8. Foreign Service Functions-Five Tracks
9. Assignments and Promotions

Part IV. The Future Foreign Service
10. Tomorrow's Diplomats

Appendices
A. Department of State Organization Chart
B. Foreign Service Core Precepts
C. Interviews
D. Websites

Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index

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