Lists of Bests: linggeek's "Foreign Affairs Professional Reading List" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/58536 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. http://www.afsa.org/readinglist.cfm Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:59:15 GMT en-us 0 50 83 50 0 Diplomacy: Theory and Practice, Third Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/250271 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/250271"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1403993114.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G. R. Berridge</div> A Dictionary of Diplomacy : Second Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/672373 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/672373"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1403915369.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G. R. Berridge</div> Negotiating Across Cultures: International Communication in an Interdependent World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1081950 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1081950"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1878379720.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056533813_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Cohen</div> Inside a U.S. Embassy: How the Foreign Service Works for America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/861509 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/861509"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0964948826.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Arts of Power: Statecraft and Diplomacy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/119976 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/119976"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1878379658.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles W., Jr. Freeman</div> American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4593705 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4593705"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EZ2%2Bnn5cL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> A World Restored http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/285324 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/285324"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1842120875.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083969252_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Kissinger</div> Inside an Embassy: The Political Role of Diplomats Abroad (Martin F. Herz Series on United States Diplomacy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4593716 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Hopkins Miller</div> Diplomacy Under a Foreign Flag: When Nations Break Relations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4593717 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Diplomacy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4593718 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4593718"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41950DW2NFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sir Harold George Nicolson</div> Colossus: The Price of America's Empire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32849 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32849"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1594200130.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1070513466_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Niall Ferguson</div> Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4593719 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4593719"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A2Pw8iI3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ashraf Ghani</div> The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4593720 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4593720"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CR1ZZ7TQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard N. Haass</div> The United Nations, Iran, and Iraq: How Peacemaking Changed (An Institute for the Study of Diplomacy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4593721 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hume</div> The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19431 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19431"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684844419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel P. Huntington</div> Untying the Afghan Knot: Negotiating Soviet Withdrawal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4593723 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Riaz M. Khan</div> America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4593724 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4593724"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Mk70Fib5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrew Kohut</div> The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World's Government in the Twenty-first Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2675425 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2675425"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000MKYKDG.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Mandelbaum</div> Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89622 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89622"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395901324.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter McDougall</div> Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81791 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81791"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415935369.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Russell Mead</div> First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2203630 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2203630"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374528934.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Warren Zimmermann</div> Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the U.S. Information Agency http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594075 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wilson P Jr Dizard</div> Digital Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Information Age http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594076 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594076"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WVG7CB5IL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wilson Dizard</div> America's Dialogue with the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594077 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594077"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XEZ90V6TL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/986813 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/986813"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1586483064.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph S. Nye</div> Communicating With the World: U.S. Public Diplomacy Overseas (Martin F. Herz Series on United States Diplomacy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1721056 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1721056"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312048092.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hans N. Tuch</div> The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913, vol. 2 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1791558 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1791558"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521483832.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter LaFeber</div> The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 3, The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/811149 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/811149"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521483824.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Akira Iriye</div> The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1341255 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1341255"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521483816.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121896743_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Warren I. Cohen</div> "Emperor Dead" and Other Historic American Diplomatic Dispatches (Adst-Dacor Diplomats and Diplomacy Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4447030 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Dangerous Nation: America and the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3051606 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3051606"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11GS72K63RL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Kagan</div> The Return of History and the End of Dreams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3200493 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Kagan</div> The American Consul: A History of the United States Consular Service, 1776-1914 (Contributions in American History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594168 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594168"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WYMCRWT0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Stuart Kennedy</div> The Department of State: A History of Its Organization, Procedure and Personnel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594169 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594169"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61RkoIpSEIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham H. Stuart</div> John Quincy Adams And The Foundations Of American Foreign Policy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594175 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Flag Bemis</div> Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers And The Haitian Revolution (Adst-Dacor Diplomats and Diplomacy Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/615159 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/615159"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1578067111.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gordon S. Brown</div> The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance (Caravan Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594180 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594180"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZoG9xLbCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael H. Hunt</div> The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity, 1812-1822 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1418352 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1418352"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080213744X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harold Nicolson</div> Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History (Adst-Dacor Diplomats and Diplomacy Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2582712 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard B. Parker</div> Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2686633 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard K. Beale</div> Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2210639 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2210639"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802143032.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Bowden</div> The Cold War: A New History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2349425 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2349425"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038273.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Lewis Gaddis</div> Two NATO Allies at the Threshold of War (Duke Press Policy Studies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594185 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Parker T. Hart</div> Romania Versus the United States: Diplomacy of the Absurd 1985-1989 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594186 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594186"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517Y2ZSGHSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Kirk</div> The Ugly American http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10910 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10910"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393318672.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William J. Lederer</div> Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9412 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9412"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760520.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Macmillan</div> In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19056 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19056"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679767495.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1091593135_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert S. McNamara</div> Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat's Cold War Education (Modern Southeast Asia Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2617793 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2617793"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0896724913.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1130450344_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Hopkins Miller</div> Peacemaking, 1919 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/754348 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/754348"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/193154154X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harold George, Sir Nicolson</div> The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594188 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594188"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DWKFSTG5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dana Priest</div>