Service to America’s Security
Service to America’s Security Every day our diplomats are working to reduce threats to our country and build a more…
Life After Foreign Service
Retirement from the Foreign Service or USAID rarely meant slowing down. For many officers, it became a second chapter full…
Fifty Years in USAID: Stories From the Front Lines
Published in November 2012 by Arlington Hall Press, an imprint of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, this collection…
Combating Drug Trafficking in Ecuador
Combating Drug Trafficking in Ecuador Yvonne Thayer grew up in Richfield, Minnesota, began her career as a journalist, and joined…
A Long Way from Runnemede
This memoir of Theresa Tull’s thirty-three-year career as a twentieth-century diplomat begins with recollections of her childhood during the Second…
American Diplomats
Diplomats provide the first line of America’s defense as they formulate and implement our country’s foreign policy. Too often, the…
Vermont
Contributions by Vermonters in the Foreign Service People born, raised, or educated in Vermont have made important contributions to America’s…
Oregon
Contributions by Oregonians in the Foreign Service People born, raised, or educated in Oregon have made important contributions to America’s…
Queer Diplomacy: A Transgender Journey in the Foreign Service
Join Robyn McCutcheon, an out and proud transgender woman, on her journey as a diplomat with the U.S. Department of…
From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy, Unintended Consequences, and the Rwandan Genocide
As deputy to the U.S. ambassador in Rwanda, Joyce E. Leader witnessed the tumultuous prelude to genocide—a period of political…