Foreign Service Officers are posted to positions abroad for terms of one, two, or three years depending on locality, demand,…
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Foreign Service Officers are posted to positions abroad for terms of one, two, or three years depending on locality, demand,…
There’s never a dull moment in the life of a USAID social anthropologist! The foreign service can indeed present a…
It’s very common for Peace Corps volunteers to feel disheartened, as David Greenlee did as a Peace Corps volunteer in…
The ADST team joins many others in the foreign affairs community in condemning recent attacks on our democracy and welcoming…
In 1895, the United States intervened in a long-standing border dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela, forcing its resolution—and forcing…
In 1979 Congress did something both bold and unusual. That year, President Carter was attempting to build a stronger relationship…
To directly defy orders from one’s superiors undoubtedly takes nerve and, above all, conviction and belief in doing the right…
At the beginning of the 1960s, U.S. foreign policy had two bugbears: the Soviet Union and Cuba. Fidel Castro had…
While U.S. State Department employees regularly serve in the midst of pivotal international agreements and turmoil, the events going on…
Towards the end of his posting in Honduras, Ambassador Frank Almaguer received multiple requests from other countries’ ambassadors for transportation…