linggeek's "Foreign Affairs Professional Reading List - Highly Recommended Titles"

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The Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and the President of the American Foreign Service Association have co-sponsored the creation of a Foreign Affairs Professional Reading List to serve as a resource for Foreign Service and Civil Service employees of the foreign affairs agencies. AFSA, the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, and the State Department’s Ralph J. Bunche Library, Office of the Historian, and Office of E-Diplomacy have compiled the list, with help from regional and functional bureaus. The list seeks to identify useful books and websites to serve as a point of departure for career-long, self-directed professional development.

To further assist busy employees, the list designates a small core group of "Highly Recommended" books that are must-reads for any well-rounded foreign affairs professional.

http://www.afsa.org/toptitles.cfm

  1. 1.
    Diplomacy: Theory and Practice, Third Edition
    by G. R. Berridge

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  2. 2.
    Arts of Power: Statecraft and Diplomacy
    by Charles W., Jr. Freeman

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  3. 4.
    Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
    by Niall Ferguson

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  4. 5.
    The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course
    by Richard N. Haass

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  6. 7.
    Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
    by Joseph S. Nye

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  7. 8.
    Dangerous Nation: America and the World
    by Robert Kagan

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  8. 10.
    Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)
    by Karen Armstrong

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  9. 11.
    The World is Flat (Updated and Expanded)
    by Thomas L. Friedman

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  10. 12.
    The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
    by Jeffrey D. Sachs

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  11. 13.
    The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
    by Paul Kennedy

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  12. 14.
    The Cold War: A New History
    by John Lewis Gaddis

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  13. 16.
    Diplomacy (A Touchstone Book)
    by Henry Kissinger

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  14. 17.
    Diplomacy
    by Sir Harold George Nicolson

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  15. 19.
    Thinking In Time : The Uses Of History For Decision Makers
    by Richard E. Neustadt

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  16. 20.
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    Memoirs, 1925-1950
    by George F. Keenan

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  17. 21.
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    The Return of History and the End of Dreams
    by Robert Kagan

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Created by linggeek on Aug 19, 2008.
 

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