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Reading Tips: New Reports from State/OIG
-03/31/10 Review of the Integrity and Fairness of the Foreign Service Selection Board Process (ISP-I-10-47) March 2010 [1626 Kb] http://oig.state.gov/documents/organization/140391.pdf -03/31/10...
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Reading Tips: New Reports from OIG and GAO
Image via Wikipedia -03/31/10 Embassy Amman, Jordan (ISP-I-10-35A) March 2010 [511 Kb] + http://oig.state.gov/documents/organization/140644.pdf In 2008, the Embassy implemented a policy of “move for...
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Reading Tips: New Reports from CRS, OIG and GAO
CRS — Iraq: Politics, Elections, and Benchmarks | May 26th, 2010 Iraq: Politics, Elections, and Benchmarks (PDF) Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS) Iraq’s political system, the result...
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Getting in bed with Robin Sage ….. no, it’s not what you think….
Image via Wikipedia I recently posted about that RSO who wanted to know about all your Facebook contacts. I also mentioned in that post a piece about a fake femme fatale made up by Thomas Ryan to...
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Tweet of the Day: The Truth Behind The Afghanistan ‘Success Story’
Posted: 1:32 am EDT The Truth Behind The Afghanistan ‘Success Story’ via @TaskandPurpose http://t.co/8TX6jpTyme — Suzanne Schroeder (@SuzanneSues57) May 13, 2015 . Looking at an American intervention...
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State Dept Releases New 3 FAM 4170 aka: The “Stop The Next Peter Van Buren”...
Posted: 3:41 am EDT Congratulations! This is almost three years in the making! We’ve previously covered the Peter Van Buren case quite extensively in this blog (see After a Year of Serious Roars and...
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Reading Tips: Recent Reports From State/OIG, USAID/OIG, SIGAR, GAO, CRS
Posted: 12:40 pm EDT State/OIG Management Assistance Report: Action Still Needed to Update the Department’s Standards of Conduct as They Relate to Trafficking in Persons and to Comply with a Related...
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Matt Armstrong: No, we do not need to revive the U.S. Information Agency
Posted: 3:55 am EDT Matt Armstrong (@mountainrunner) is a lecturer on public diplomacy and international media. He is writing a book on how the White House, State Department, Congress, and the media...
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Stupefied: How the best and the brightest learn to switch off their brains at...
Posted: 11:57 am ET André Spicer is professor of organisational behaviour at the Cass Business School at City, University of London, where he specialises in political dynamics, organisational culture...
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What every dictator knows: young men are natural fanatics
by Joe Herbert, emeritus professor of neuroscience at the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair at the University of Cambridge. His latest book is Testosterone: Sex, Power, and the Will to Win (2015)....
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Growing Body of Work on Rex Tillerson’s Stewardship of the State Department
Posted: 1:10 am ET During his welcome remarks at the State Department on February 2, Secretary Tillerson talked about three core principles Foggy Bottom should adopt: accountability, honesty, and...
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What know-it-alls don’t know, or the illusion of competence
by Kate Fehlhaber (This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons). One day in 1995, a large, heavy middle-aged man robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad...
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Massimo Pigliucci: To be happier, focus on what’s within your control
by Massimo Pigliucci (This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons) God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change...
View ArticleBragging rights: when beating your own drum helps (or hurts)
By Patrick Heck | He is a PhD candidate in social psychology at Brown University in Rhode Island, where he studies the Self, social judgment and decision making, and prosocial behavior. Via Creative...
View ArticleThe Middle East in the New World Disorder
By Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.) Not so long ago, Americans thought we understood the Middle East, that region where the African, Asian, and European worlds collide. When the Ottoman...
View ArticleAmerican exceptionalism, from Stalin with love
By Ian Tyrrell | He is emeritus professor of history at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. His latest book is Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in Theodore...
View ArticleMore than just sanctuary, migrants need social citizenship #seventhperson
By Nancy Berlinger: a research scholar at The Hastings Center in New York. Her most recent book is Are Workarounds Ethical? Managing Moral Problems in Health Care Systems (2016). She co-directs the...
View ArticleAmbassador Anthony Quainton: “there are more and more hammers in the policy...
Posted: 4:04 am ET Follow @Diplopundit From Militarization and Marginalization of American Diplomacy and Foreign Policy via American Diplomacy Ambassador Anthony C. E. Quainton Former U.S....
View ArticleDiplomacy: A Rusting Tool of American Statecraft
by Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.) Senior Fellow, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Washington, DC and Cambridge, Massachusetts, February, 2018...
View ArticleAmbassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr: Diplomacy as Tactics
Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.) Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island, 5 April 2018 This is the second of three...
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