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The Foreign Service Journal, February 2009.Pdf TIPS FOR PRT MEMBERS I AMERICA’S FIRST BLACK CHIEF OF MISSION 2008 TAX GUIDE INSIDE! $3.50 /FEBRUARY 2009 OREIGN ERVICE FJOURNAL STHE MAGAZINE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS ALEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY The Energy-Environment Convergence OREIGN ERVICE FJOURNAL S CONTENTS February 2009 Volume 86, No. 2 F OCUSON Global Energy STRIKING WHILE THE IRON IS HOT / 16 The convergence of the need for economic stimulus plans, lower-carbon energy sources and infrastructure renewal is a historic moment. By William C. Ramsay CAPITALIZING ON A STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY / 21 By taking the lead to address climate change, the U.S. can shift global economic and environmental dynamics. By Sarah Ladislaw Cover and inside illustration F EATURE by Josh Dorman IMPROVING THE PRT-MILITARY PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP / 27 A U.S. Army member of an Iraq Provincial Reconstruction Team offers practical advice to Foreign Service colleagues. By Sean P. Walsh PRESIDENT’S VIEWS / 5 Self-Help FSH ERITAGE By John K. Naland THE COURAGEOUS DIPLOMACY OF EBENEZER D. BASSETT / 30 SPEAKING OUT / 12 The heroism, integrity and concern for human rights of the first AFRICOM & SOUTHCOM: African-American diplomat to serve as a U.S. chief of mission Reliquaria from an Earlier Era set a powerful example. By David Passage By Christopher J. Teal REFLECTIONS / 72 A Confrontation in Moscow A PPRECIATION By Kempton Jenkins PASSAGE OF A GLOBAL NOMAD: NORMA M. MCCAIG, 1945-2008 / 36 LETTERS / 6 By Mikkela Thompson CYBERNOTES / 8 AFSAN EWS MARKETPLACE / 11 BOOKS / 59 ANNUAL OPINION POLL YIELDS RECORD NUMBER OF RESPONSES / 39 RENOVATION UPDATE / 39 IN MEMORY / 62 NEWS BRIEFS AND AGGELER / 40 INDEX TO 2008 TAX GUIDE / 43 ADVERTISERS / 70 CLASSIFIEDS / 57 FEBRUARY 2009/FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL 3 UESTIONS OREIGN ERVICE Q ? Not sure whom to contact? JOURNAL FasTrax is your inside source to the right places. F S Editor LETTERS TO MEMBERSHIP STEVEN ALAN HONLEY For changes of address and other THE EDITOR Senior Editor Printed letters may be edited for questions about AFSA membership, SUSAN B. MAITRA space. E-mail to [email protected] or e-mail [email protected]. Associate Editor mail to FSJ, 2101 E Street NW, SHAWN DORMAN FasTrax Washington DC 20037. ADVERTISING AFSA News Editor For details about placing either FRANCESCA KELLY LASSIFIEDS a display or classifed ad, Ad & Circulation Manager E-C ED MILTENBERGER www.afsa.org/classifieds e-mail [email protected], Business Manager FSJ [email protected]. ALICIA J. CAMPI Art Director COPYRIGHTS & CARYN SUKO SMITH REPRINTS Advertising Intern To obtain permission to reproduce HANS MULDER FSJ material, e-mail EDITORIAL BOARD [email protected]. TED WILKINSON Chairman ONLINE JOSEPH BRUNS www.afsa.org STEPHEN W. 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TELEPHONE: (202) 338-4045 Truman Building (we all know how convenient that is!), FAX: (202) 338-8244 or (202) 338-6820 E-MAIL: [email protected] AFSA is offering this pilot classifieds program as a service to WEB: www.afsa.org; www.fsjournal.org members. As an added bonus, the option to insert a picture © American Foreign Service Association, 2009. Printed in the U.S.A. Send address changes to: will be available. The basic interface is designed to be concise, AFSA Attn: Address Change effective and, hopefully, user-friendly. 2101 E Street N.W. Washington DC 20037-2990 Printed on 50-percent recycled paper, of which 10 percent is post-consumer waste. 4 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL/FEBRUARY 2009 PRESIDENT’S VIEWS Self-Help BY JOHN K. NALAND As you read this, AFSA ex- done a horizons-broadening of State’sDissent Channel has declined. pects to be working with Secre- developmental tour (such as a For overseas members whose posi- tary of State Hillary Clinton and year of academic study or an tions involve reporting, outreach or pro- others in the Obama adminis- out-of-agency detail assign- gram management, do you practice risk tration to secure expanded con- ment) or attained additional management — instead of risk avoid- gressional funding for our for- language fluency (such as pro- ance — when it comes to venturing out eign affairs agencies, to close the ficiency in a second language)? from behind embassy or consulate overseas pay gap, and to take other steps Those two “electives” are among the walls? Are your days focused on inter- to strengthen U.S. diplomacy and de- five-out-of-seven benchmarks that State acting with host-country officials and velopment assistance. generalist officers must meet before citizens or on answering e-mails from However, some of what needs to be promotion into the Senior Foreign Washington? done depends not on the actions of oth- Service under the Career Development I have mentioned some of these ers, but instead on self-help actions by Program adopted in 2005. points in previous columns. I repeat individual Foreign Service members. And what about professional writ- myself now because I continue to en- Here I am reminded of the disaster vic- ing? Military journals are full of pro- counter influential policymakers and tim who told a reporter: “I am tired of vocative essays by active-duty officers policy shapers in the executive branch, waiting for the government to clean up analyzing professional issues. In con- Congress and news media, at think- my front yard; I guess I will have to do trast, relatively few career diplomats tanks, and among distinguished retired it myself.” Yes, I thought to myself, write articles for publication. To help colleagues who say that the Foreign maybe you should clean up your own fill this shortage of intellectual engage- Service needs new attitudes in order to front yard! ment, the Foreign Service Journal is al- meet the challenges of 21st-century My self-help checklist for active-duty ways looking for submissions to its diplomacy and development assistance. members starts with professional devel- Speaking Out, FS Know-How and FS To be sure, I tell them that the first opment. Are you engaged in self-di- Heritage departments, as well as ana- step is to give us the additional staffing rected professional development by,for lytical pieces on international affairs and and funding that a growing stack of blue example, utilizing the Foreign Affairs professional issues. ribbon panel reports say are desperately Professional Reading List that was cre- Do you practice constructive dis- needed. But there is no question that ated last year in a joint initiative by sent? Since 1968, AFSA has presented some of what needs to be done depends AFSA and the under secretary of State awards to colleagues who demonstrate on self-help actions within the Foreign for political affairs? Are you active in a the professional courage and integrity to Service. professional development discussion speak out using appropriate channels, Each of us needs to develop the group (book club) at your post or office, ask tough questions, offer alternative so- knowledge, skills and abilities that make as recommended by that joint initiative? lutions and give the best counsel that the Foreign Service uniquely able to What about training? Have you Foreign Service members are trained to contribute to foreign policy develop- give. This is a key duty for all of us, but ment and implementation. If we fall John K. Naland is the president of the in recent years AFSA has experienced short, then future policymakers will look American Foreign Service Association. a drop in award nominations, just as use to others to get the job done. I FEBRUARY 2009/FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL 5 LETTERS What Else Could They Want? she is told she is not qualified to take astonished, remarking that there was I strongly agree with the November the orals? no chance such a program could exist letter by Rick Polney regarding the When I asked the director general’s among Defense Department employ- State Department’s new process for office what she would have to do to ees or probably any other federal hiring Foreign Service officers.
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