Insight and Analysis from Foreign Affairs Practitioners and Scholars
Established 1996 • Raymond F. Smith, Editor
The author was a U.S. Foreign Service spouse until the retirement in 1984 of her husband. Now residing in Florida, she has published a number of sketches of life abroad in this journal and in Florida Today, a weekly newspaper … Read more
Through the courtesy of the Foreign Service Journal , we are pleased to present seven personal reports of an unusual but not unknown side of life as a diplomat: the drama of being caught up in dangerous conflicts and experiencing … Read more
The author of the following account of one aspect of a diplomat’s life brings a distinguished thirty-year career to the telling. Ambassador Dale, president of this journal’s board of directors, had the good fortune, as will be seen, to interact … Read more
The author recounts an unusual household problem encountered at one of her posts. Or perhaps it was not so terribly unusual for Foreign Service families living year after year abroad in various countries. Certainly she and her husband solved the … Read more
by John L. Brown Rarely does a publication such as ours have an opportunity to publish father and son in the same issue on generally the same topic. Further, it is mighty unusual that the two articles should be so … Read more
How two young American vice consuls stole back from the Japanese Kempeitai a confidential U.S. diplomatic code seized on the outbreak of the Pacific War
by Niles W. Bond
by Bobbie Bergesen Once again the author brings her perspective to bear as a Foreign Service spouse, recounting this time her “break-in” experiences at her and her husband’s first post—Rangoon. For other of Ms. Bergesen’s illuminating commentaries on official life … Read more
by Bobbie Bergesen Again we have the pleasure of offering up a vignette recounting the experience of the author, a sketch taken from her years as the spouse of a Foreign Service officer. You may click here for other of … Read more