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The Foreign Service Journal, April 2020 PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION APRIL 2020 CAREER MANAGEMENT TODAY DISCOVERING A POST’S HISTORY RETIREMENT 101 FOREIGN SERVICE April 2020 Volume 97, No. 3 Focus on Career and Feature Performance Management 53 The Power of Language Here’s how an “English For Work” program improved security in Kabul. By Krishna Sharma Retirement Supplement JEFF MOORES 67 Retirement Planning 101 It may be years away, but the sooner 24 37 you think about and plan for your Needs of the Service and State’s New MSI Program: retirement, the better it will be. Those of Our People: Preliminary Results Are In By John K. Naland The New HR By Raeka Safai By Philip W. Kaplan 73 41 AFSA Membership 27 What’s Next for SNEA? in Retirement: By Donna Scaramastra Gorman What’s in It for You? Evaluation Reform at Besides camaraderie, there are paths State: A Work in Progress to engagement and advocacy, access By Alex Karagiannis 45 to unique practical information and Balancing Act’s assistance—and it’s a good deal! Formula for Driving By Dolores Brown 32 Institutional Change Life After the Redesigning Foreign By Lillian Wahl-Tuco Service Performance and Foreign Service Promotion at USAID 48 By Martha Lappin 75 From the FSJ Archive Managing a Foreign The Theater and Service Career Policy Salon By Michael Feldman 78 FS Heritage The Inn by the Lake By David Summers 49 Discovering Our Consulate’s History, 80 We Discovered Ourselves—Matamoros, Mexico Try the Smaller Pond By Moises Mendoza By Janice Weiner THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | APRIL 2020 5 FOREIGN SERVICE Perspectives Departments 7 89 10 Letters President’s Views Reflections The Legacy of Tex Harris On the Road from Sibiu 12 Letters-Plus By Eric Rubin By Jonathan B. Rickert 14 Talking Points 9 82 Books Letter from the Editor Diplomacy in the Time of Corona By Shawn Dorman 20 Marketplace Speaking Out 84 Classifieds Breaking Away from “Born, Not Made” 90 85 Index to Advertisers By Andrea Susana Martinez Local Lens Donnally and Christina T. Le Cessy, France 86 Real Estate & Property By Kevin Keen Management AFSA NEWS THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION 57 The Passing of F. Allen “Tex” Harris 57 58 State VP Voice—Giving the MSI the Attention It Deserves 59 USAID VP Voice—Labor Management Relations 59 AFSA Governing Board Meeting 59 Everything You Need to Know about the TSP 60 FCS VP Voice—We’ve Seen This Movie Before 60 AFSA Seeks Volunteers for Elections Committee 61 AFSA on the Hill—Building on Fiscal Year 2020 Gains 65 Call for Nominations: 61 Retirement Planning Five to 10 Years Out 2020 Exemplary Performance Awards 62 Foreign Service Artists Featured at 66 AFSA Outreach Campaign Highlights the AFSA Showcase Foreign Service as the First Line of Defense 64 AFSA Welcomes Incoming Classes 66 AFSA Hosts Breakfast for Ambassadors On the Cover—Illustration by Jeff Moores. 6 APRIL 2020 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL PRESIDENT’S VIEWS The Legacy of Tex Harris BY ERIC RUBIN he U.S. Foreign Service lost a Our country’s security and prosperity depend giant in February when Tex heavily on our international engagement. Harris left us. Tex did more than Tany single individual to build today’s AFSA, and to lay the groundwork simply doing their jobs, reporting accu- the world still needs the United States for AFSA to serve not only as the voice rately on what they observed, or for being to be a leader among nations to work of the modern Foreign Service, but as its homosexual or suspected to be. At that for peace and progress. The post–World stalwart defender and advocate, as well. time, AFSA did not stand up for them. War II era was shaped by the United Tex also believed passionately that Let me be clear about where AFSA States. Its institutions were largely our members of the Foreign Service could stands today: We will fight for our mem- creation. And the result was the single not simply count on the goodwill of bers, and we will fight for the practice of longest period of peace and prosperity management, but needed rules and diplomacy, which is the alternative to war. in human history. procedures in place to make sure that We are passionate about our com- We serve our country, with dedica- individual members of our Service were mitment to nonpartisan, nonpolitical tion and loyalty. But in working for treated fairly and were able to defend service to our country. We will loyally our country, we work for the world. themselves. serve whomever the American people Our country’s security and prosperity At AFSA, we take seriously our obliga- elect as their leaders and work assidu- depend heavily on our international tion to defend our members when they ously to ensure the success of the poli- engagement. No one can or will replace encounter difficulties. We are proud that cies established by our elected leaders. the United States if it withdraws from we raised enough money for our Legal But we expect respect for our patriotism engagement in the world’s affairs. Defense Fund so that not one AFSA and service in return. Americans need us—and the world member who was called to testify in the There are other things to say about needs us. recent impeachment battle is left with a the legacy of Tex Harris. More than any Tex also passionately believed in single cent of liability for legal fees. We other U.S. diplomat, Tex advanced the the importance of constructive dissent. also have a significant balance of dona- notion that America is about values, that The culture of the U.S. Foreign Service, tions to cover our members facing legal our country stands for more than just our and the value that we bring to the table, bills in the future—and to defend our own self-interest. Along with Assistant emphasizes the importance of speaking association if AFSA itself should encoun- Secretary of State Patricia Derian, he pio- truth to power—confidentially and inter- ter legal challenges. neered the idea that our diplomacy must nally—and insists that we can only get The lessons of the McCarthy period in include a commitment to basic norms of the right results in policy deliberations the 1950s resonate to this day. Hundreds human rights, and that ignoring or sup- when there is a real discussion informed of members of the porting gross violations of those values by career expertise and knowledge. Foreign Service undermines our standing in the world. For those of you considering whether were investigated, His human rights work in 1977-1979 to remain in public service, I repeat the pilloried, perse- Argentina still stands as an outstanding request I have made before. Please stay. cuted and fired for example for the Service. Please continue serving our country, specious reasons— Surely we have not always lived up and know that the work you do mat- in some cases for to that standard, to our principles. But ters—a lot. n Ambassador Eric Rubin is the president of the American Foreign Service Association. THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | APRIL 2020 7 FOREIGN SERVICE Editor-in-Chief, Director of Publications Shawn Dorman: [email protected] www.afsa.org Senior Editor Susan Brady Maitra: [email protected] Managing Editor CONTACTS Kathryn Owens: [email protected] AFSA Headquarters: ADVOCACY Associate Editor (202) 338-4045; Fax (202) 338-6820 Director of Advocacy Cameron Woodworth: [email protected] State Department AFSA Office: Kim Greenplate: [email protected] (202) 647-8160; Fax (202) 647-0265 Publications Coordinator USAID AFSA Office: FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION Dmitry Filipoff: [email protected] (202) 712-1941; Fax (202) 216-3710 Director of Finance and Facilities Business Development Manager— FCS AFSA Office: Femi Oshobukola: [email protected] Advertising and Circulation (202) 482-9088; Fax (202) 482-9087 Manager, HR and Operations Molly Long: [email protected] Cory Nishi: [email protected] GOVERNING BOARD Controller Art Director President Kalpna Srimal: [email protected] Caryn Suko Smith Hon. Eric S. Rubin: [email protected] Member Accounts Specialist Editorial Board Secretary Ana Lopez: [email protected] Alexis Ludwig, Chair Ken Kero-Mentz: [email protected] IT and Infrastructure Coordinator Hon. Robert M. Beecroft Treasurer Aleksandar “Pav” Pavlovich: Daniel Crocker Virginia L. Bennett: [email protected] [email protected] Joel Ehrendreich State Vice President Harry Kopp Thomas Yazdgerdi: [email protected] COMMUNICATIONS Jess McTigue USAID Vice President Christopher Teal Director of Communications Jason Singer: [email protected] Joe Tordella Ásgeir Sigfússon: [email protected] FCS Vice President Vivian Walker Manager of Outreach and Internal Hon. Laurence Wohlers Jay Carreiro: [email protected] Communications Dinah Zeltser-Winant FAS Vice President Allan Saunders: [email protected] Michael Riedel: [email protected] Online Communications Manager Retiree Vice President Jeff Lau: [email protected] THE MAGAZINE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS John K. Naland: [email protected] Awards and Scholarships Manager PROFESSIONALS State Representatives Theo Horn: [email protected] The Foreign Service Journal (ISSN 0146-3543), Joshua C. Archibald 2101 E Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037-2990 is Strategic Messaging Coordinator published monthly, with combined January-February Matthew Dolbow Nadja Ruzica: [email protected] and July-August issues, by the American Foreign Service Holly Kirking Loomis Association (AFSA), a private, nonprofit organization. Kristin Michelle Roberts Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the MEMBERSHIP writers and does not necessarily represent the views of Tamir Waser Director, Programs and Member Engagement the Journal, the Editorial Board or AFSA. Writer queries Lillian Wahl-Tuco Christine Miele: [email protected] and submissions are invited, preferably by email.
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