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

  2. 4.
    Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
    by Niall Ferguson

  3. 5.
    The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course
    by Richard N. Haass

  4. 6.

  5. 7.
    Soft Power: The Means To Success In World Politics
    by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

  6. 8.
    Dangerous Nation: America and the World
    by Robert Kagan

  7. 10.
    Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)
    by Karen Armstrong

  8. 11.
    The World is Flat (Updated and Expanded)
    by Thomas L. Friedman

  9. 12.
    The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
    by Jeffrey D. Sachs

  10. 13.
    The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
    by Paul Kennedy

  11. 14.
    The Cold War: A New History
    by John Lewis Gaddis

  12. 16.
    Diplomacy (A Touchstone book)
    by Henry Kissinger

  13. 17.
    Diplomacy
    by Sir Harold George Nicolson

  14. 19.
    Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers
    by Richard E. Neustadt

  15. 20.
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    Memoirs, 1925-1950
    by George F. Keenan

  16. 21.
    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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