Inside a U.S. embassy: diplomacy at work

Why this book?

What is foreign service?

U.S. presence in the world in 2011

Map: Department of State locations

FLow chart: foreign affairs agencies inside U.S. embassies

PART 1. Profiles: Who works in an embassy? Essays from diplomats serving in Aermenia, China, Morocco, Egypt, Ukraine, India, Russia, Abu Dhabi, Haiti, Mexico, Kuwait, Yemen, Afthanistan, Peru, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Austria, South Africa, Kenya, Thailand, and Indonesia

PART II. Foreign service work and life: embassy, employee, family: The embassy and the country team

FSN-FSO relationship

The Foreign Service on call

The Foreign Service life

Sabatticals, fellowships, adn details

What if I disagree? Dissent in the Foreign Service

Tai Tai: a diplomat's wife in the Middle Kingdom

A non-traditional tandem in India

Waking up in Vietnam

A cross-cultural friendship

A spouse at work in the mission

PART III. A day in the life of the Foreign Service: one-day journals (from consular officers in India, Brazil, Bangladesh, Russia, Burkina Faso, Tajikistan, Honduras, Sweden, Mauritania, Vietnam, Argentina, the Congo, Austria, Costa Rica, Guinea, Haiti, iraq, Mexico, China, and Zimbabwe

PART IV. The Foreign Service in action: tales from the field (essays from Maldives 2006; Thailand, 2004; Liberia, 1996; Afgthanistan, 2008; Yemen, 2008; Macedonia, 1999; Guinea, 2007; Bangladesh, 2007; Iraq, 2008; Egypt, 2005; Austria, 2005; Kosovo, 2008; Serbia, 2008; China, 2008; Saudi Arabia, 2004; Burma, 1998

PART V. So you want to join the Foreign Service? A guide to State Department hiring

Online resources.