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245	0	0	_aInside a U.S. embassy : _bdiplomacy at work / _cShawn Dorman, editor.
250			_a3rd ed.
260			_aWashington, D.C. : _bForeign Service Books, _cc2011.
300			_axii, 265 p. : _bill., maps ; _c23 cm.
500			_a“The essential guide to the foreign service ; all-new third edition”—cover page.
500			_a“American Foreign Service Association”—cover page.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505			_aContents: Introductory section—Why this book? / by Shawn Dorman—What is the foreign service? / by John Naland and Susan Johnson—U.S. presence in the world in 2011—Map : department of state locations—Flow chart : foreign affairs agencies inside U.S. embassies—Part I : profiles : who works in an embassy? (p. 9)—Part II : foreign service work and life : embassy, employee, family (p. 69)—Part III : a day in the life of the foreign services : one-day journals (p. 119)—Part IV : the foreign service in action : tales from the field (p. 173)—Part V : so you want to join the foreign service? (p. 207)—Appendix (p. 257).
520			_aSummary: The all-new third edition of the essential guide to the Foreign Service, "Inside a U.S. Embassy" is widely recognized as the essential guide to the Foreign Service. This all-new third edition takes readers to more than fifty U.S. missions around the world, introducing Foreign Service professionals and providing detailed descriptions of their jobs and firsthand accounts of diplomacy in action. In addition to profiles of diplomats and specialists around the world from the ambassador to the consular officer, the public diplomacy officer to the security specialist is a selection from more than twenty countries of day-in-the-life accounts, each describing an actual day on the job. Personal reports from the field give a sense of the extraordinary challenges the coups, the natural disasters, the civil wars and rewards of representing America to the world."Inside a U.S. Embassy" includes new chapters on the highly competitive Foreign Service entrance process, Foreign Service life outside the embassy, and briefings on topics such as handling high-level visits and service in war zones.
546			_aEnglish
610	2	0	_aAmerican Foreign Service Association.
650		0	_aDiplomatic and consular service, American.
700	1		_aDorman, Shawn.
710	2		_aAmerican Foreign Service Association.
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