PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION MAY 2015 MANAGING RISK FOR EFFECTIVE DIPLOMACY FROM THE DG: A FOREIGN SERVICE FOR 2025 AND BEYOND TIPS FROM THE BELLY OF THE PYTHON FOREIGN May 2015 SERVICE Volume 92, No. 4 COVER STORY AFSA NEWS AFSA Co-Sponsors ‘Distinguished Building a Foreign Service for 2025 and Beyond / 21 Diplomat’ Lecture / 49 From the Director General, a look at plans for harnessing talent for the front lines of Scholarship Fund Receives diplomacy in an increasingly complex world. Record-Breaking Gift / 49 State VP Voice: Improving Quality BY ARNOLD CHACÓN AND ALEX KARAGIANNIS of Work and Life / 50 USAID VP Voice: Eligible Family Member Employment / 51 FOCUS ON MANAGING RISK Retiree VP Voice: Life After the Effective Diplomacy After Benghazi / 25 Foreign Service—It’s All Write / 52 New Online Memorial Tribute Adjusting to regularly changing threat levels while still engaging with society Page / 52 and getting diplomacy done in one of the world’s most dangerous cities— AAD Report: ‘American Diplomacy it’s all in a day’s work at Consulate General Karachi. at Risk’ / 53 BY MICHAEL DODMAN State Proposes Danger Pay Changes / 53 AFSA and HECFAA Welcome Diplomatic Security Triage in a Dangerous World / 29 the New DG / 54 Security professionals must balance risks against the requirements AFSA Governing Board Election / 54 of diplomatic engagement. AFSA Adds Two Names to Memorial Plaques / 55 BY ANTHONY C.E. QUAINTON Webinar with Post Reps / 56 AFSA Hosts Chiefs of Mission / 58 Keeping Embassy Security in Perspective / 33 AFSA Community: A New Way to Engage / 58 A veteran FSO takes a critical look at risk tolerance—or the lack thereof. AFSA Staff Discuss FS Careers / 59 BY JAMES L. BULLOCK It’s Flying Cats and Dogs / 60 You and Your Packout / 62 FEATURE COLUMNS President’s Views / 7 Women Who Make a Difference: Two Steps in Support of Reflections of a Foreign Service Wife in 1982 / 39 Career Development BY ROBERT J. SILVERMAN An FS spouse reflects on her experiences during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, when struggles for independence from colonial rule exploded throughout Letter from the Editor / 8 the developing world. Security and Engagement BY SHAWN DORMAN BY PATRICIA B. NORLAND Speaking Out / 18 A Strategic Approach to FS KNOW-HOW Public Diplomacy BY JOE B. JOHNSON Tips from the Belly of the Python / 45 Reflections / 77 How can we optimize our own professional development and strengthen Coming Out of the Cold the Foreign Service while negotiating a challenging mid-level passage? BY JIM OWEN Here are some suggestions. BY JOHN FER DEPARTMENTS Letters / 9 Talking Points / 12 In Memory / 63 Books /68 Local Lens / 78 MARKETPLACE On the cover: Yemeni protestors climb the gate of U.S. Embassy Sana’a on Sept. 13, 2012, Classifieds / 69 during a demonstration about a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad. Two days earlier, Real Estate / 72 Islamic militants had attacked a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, killing Ambassador Index to Advertisers / 76 J. Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, Diplo- matic Security Agent Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty, a former Navy SEAL assigned to a State Department security detail. AP PHOTO/HANI MOHAMMED. 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SILVERMAN s I write in early April, the AFSA ment initially put the London position in as ambassadors there and rose to the top award nominations have come the Overseas Development Program for of the Service) would include: USNATO in, and I am so pleased that we civil servants, a new program created by (Toria Nuland, Nick Burns), Russia (Bill A have another record number the 2010 QDDR. When this AFSA Board Burns, Tom Pickering), Israel (Dan Kurtzer, of nominations. I hope many of you will came in, the department wanted to double Tom Pickering), South Korea (Kathy Ste- attend the awards ceremony on June 9 at the program from 20 to 40 Foreign Service phens, Chris Hill), South Africa (Princeton the State Department to recognize our col- positions, but we pushed back out of Lyman), Argentina (Tony Wayne) and leagues’ principled