Jett, Dennis C.
DENNIS JETT served as the United States ambassador to Mozambique and Peru under the Clinton administration and is currently a professor at Penn State University’s School of International Affairs. His career in the U.S. Foreign Service spanned twenty-eight years and three continents; his academic expertise focuses on international relations, foreign aid administration, and American foreign policy.
Immediately prior to joining Penn State, he served eight years as dean of the International Center at the University of Florida. He is the author of Why Peacekeeping Fails (2001), Why American Foreign Policy Fails: Unsafe at Home and Despised Abroad (2008), and numerous articles.
The way in which people become ambassadors of the United States is the result of time––honored traditions and, in some cases, a thinly veiled form of political corruption. Former U.S. ambassador Dennis Jett’s American Ambassadors explains where ambassadors come from, what they do, where they go, and why they still...