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The Foreign Service Journal, November 2015.Pdf PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION NOVEMBER 2015 IN THEIR OWN WRITE RAISING FOREIGN SERVICE KIDS U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE ARCTIC ADVERTISEMENT FOREIGN November 2015 SERVICE Volume 92, No. 9 AFSA NEWS COVER STORY AFSA President Urges Focus on “New Threat Set” / 69 Getting into the Game: America’s Arctic Policy / 23 State VP Voice: AFSA Post Reps / 70 Climate change is opening up new opportunities and challenges in the Arctic. Is the United States ready to lead? FCS VP Voice: At Last! Temporary Duty Housing / 71 BY ÁSGEIR SIGFÚSSON Retiree VP Voice: Entitlements vs. the Economy / 72 FOCUS ON BOOKS BY FOREIGN SERVICE AUTHORS New Partnership Engages Next Generation / 73 In Their Own Write / 31 Ambassador Young on the We are pleased to present this year’s roundup of books by members Call to Serve / 74 of the Foreign Service community. CFC: Two Ways to Support AFSA / 75 BY SUSAN MAITRA 2016-2017 Scholarship Applications / 76 A Bibliography of USAID Authors / 40 Second Annual AFSA Book This new compendium of works by USAID authors focuses on development issues. Market / 77 BY JOHN PIELEMEIER New AFSA Staff Member at USAID / 77 Of Related Interest / 50 Call for Nominations: Here is a short listing of books of interest to diplomats that have Exemplary Performance / 78 not been written by members of the Foreign Service or their families. Nominations for Sinclaire Language Awards / 78 FS HERITAGE AFSA on the Hill: Fighting for FS Families / 79 Taking Stock of Secretary of State AFSA Governing Board Meeting/ 79 Charles Evans Hughes / 61 Speakers Bureau Critical for Outreach / 80 The 44th Secretary of State, a true statesman who displayed exemplary foreign policy leadership, deserves more recognition. AFSA Welcomes Fall Interns / 80 BY MAXWELL J. HAMILTON AND JOHN MAXWELL HAMILTON COLUMNS President’s Views / 7 Opening the Conversation FS KNOW-HOW BY BARBARA STEPHENSON Letter from the Editor / 8 Raising Foreign Service Kids / 65 Bring On the Books! Get to know the nonprofit groups and State Department offices BY SHAWN DORMAN that offer a social safety net for Foreign Service youth. Speaking Out / 20 BY JOHN K. NALAND The Trouble with the Lawyers List BY JAMES EHRMAN Reflections / 93 The Secretary Visits the Arctic BY MIGUEL RODRIGUES DEPARTMENTS Letters / 10 Talking Points / 13 In Memory / 81 Local Lens / 94 MARKETPLACE Classifieds / 86 Real Estate / 89 On the Cover: Books by Foreign Service authors and their family members. Photo and Design Index to Advertisers / 92 Credit: Jeff Lau. Photo of Canadian Arctic city of Iqaluit. Credit: FSO Miguel Rodrigues THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2015 5 FOREIGN SERVICE Editor in Chief Director of Publications Shawn Dorman: [email protected] www.afsa.org Managing Editor Susan Brady Maitra: [email protected] Associate Editor CONTACTS Maria C. Livingston: [email protected] AFSA Headquarters: LABOR MANAGEMENT (202) 338-4045; Fax (202) 338-6820 General Counsel Editorial/Publications Specialist State Department AFSA Office: Sharon Papp: [email protected] Brittany DeLong: [email protected] (202) 647-8160; Fax (202) 647-0265 Deputy General Counsel Ad & Circulation Manager USAID AFSA Office: Zlatana Badrich: [email protected] Ed Miltenberger: [email protected] (202) 712-1941; Fax (202) 216-3710 Labor Management Specialist FCS AFSA Office: James Yorke: [email protected] Art Director (202) 482-9088; Fax (202) 482-9087 Senior Staff Attorney Caryn Suko Smith Neera Parikh: [email protected] GOVERNING BOARD Staff Attorney Editorial Intern President Raeka Safai: [email protected] Shannon Mizzi Hon. 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Rendeiro Jr. State Representatives Member Services Director Duncan Walker Lawrence Casselle Janet Hedrick: [email protected] Tracy Whittington John Dinkelman Membership Representative Eric Geelan Natalie Cheung: [email protected] THE MAGAZINE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS Josh Glazeroff Retiree Counselor PROFESSIONALS The Foreign Service Journal (ISSN 0146-3543), 2101 E Margaret “Nini” Hawthorne Todd Thurwachter: [email protected] Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037-2990 is pub- Philip Laidlaw Coordinator, Retiree Counseling lished monthly, with combined January-February and Peter Neisuler and Legislation July-August issues, by the American Foreign Service Erin O’Connor VACANT Association (AFSA), a private, nonprofit organization. Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the Leah Pease Administrative Assistant and Office Manager writers and does not necessarily represent the views of Sam Thielman Ana Lopez: [email protected] the Journal, the Editorial Board or AFSA. Writer queries Tricia Wingerter and submissions are invited, preferably by email. The USAID Representatives COMMUNICATIONS Journal is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts, Director of Communications photos or illustrations. Advertising inquiries are invited. Jeffrey Cochrane All advertising is subject to the publisher’s approval. Lorraine Sherman Ásgeir Sigfússon: [email protected] AFSA reserves the right to reject advertising that is not FCS Representative Online Communications Specialist in keeping with its standards and objectives. The appear- Jeff Lau: [email protected] ance of advertisements herein does not imply endorse- Youqing Ma ment of goods or services offered. Opinions expressed in FAS Representative Corey Pickelsimer Communications and Press Specialist advertisements are the views of the advertisers and do BBG Representative Vacant Allan Saunders: [email protected] not necessarily represent AFSA views or policy. Journal APHIS Representative Mark C. Prescott Special Awards and Outreach Coordinator subscription: AFSA member–$20, included in annual Perri Green: [email protected] dues; student–$30; institution–$40; others–$50; Single Retiree Representatives issue–$4.50. For foreign surface mail, add $18 per year; Hon. Patricia Butenis foreign airmail, $36 per year. Periodical postage paid Dean J. Haas ADVOCACY at Washington, D.C., and at additional mailing offices. Advocacy Director Indexed by the Public Affairs Information Services (PAIS). Hon. Al La Porta Hon. John Limbert Javier Cuebas: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Senior Legislative Assistant Phone: (202) 338-4045 STAFF David Murimi: [email protected] Fax: (202) 338-8244 Executive Director Web: www.afsa.org/fsj Ian Houston: [email protected] SCHOLARSHIPS Scholarship Director © American Foreign Service Association, 2015 Executive Assistant Patrick Bradley: [email protected] Lori Dec: [email protected] PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. Scholarship Senior Associate BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Jonathan Crawford: [email protected] Postmaster: Send address changes to AFSA, Attn: Address Change Director of Finance 2101 E Street NW Femi Oshobukola: [email protected] Washington DC 20037-2990 Controller Kalpna Srimal: [email protected] Assistant Controller Cory Nishi: [email protected] 6 NOVEMBER 2015 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL PRESIDENT’S VIEWS Opening the Conversation BY BARBARA STEPHENSON ast month, in “Setting Our We need to be able to speak and write Course,” I concluded by saying that as AFSA president I want to articulately about what the Foreign Service L spark and sustain a conversa- actually does and why that matters to tion with you, the members of the Foreign the American people. Service, about our profession. As I write my third President’s Views column, the new AFSA Governing Board, sworn in on July 15, is headed to a retreat bridges across cultures and languages and Neither Ebola nor immigrants stay within aimed at further refining the vision for disciplines, and we enable people to make borders. our term in office and aligning AFSA’s common cause. With power becoming more diffuse, resources behind the three pillars of the I invite you to join in this effort to U.S. convening authority can no longer be work plan—comprehensive workforce describe—in compelling terms that taken for granted. We are going to have to planning, outreach to the American public resonate with the American people—what work hard and smart to maintain our role and inreach to our members—that sup- the Foreign Service does today and what it as the indispensable nation—harness- port the goal of a stronger Foreign Service will be called upon to do in the future. The ing America’s unrivaled soft, attractive fit to lead American foreign policy today, clearer we can be about the task before power to convene stakeholders around a and a generation from now. us, the better we will do at advocating thoughtful agenda to achieve purposeful, We will open the retreat by talking for a workforce properly resourced and collective action. about the mission
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