2020
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Lost in Shanghai
At its core, this is a story of love—God’s love. This is my path to conversion, in which humility played a key role.
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Foreign Service Family
Blaine Tueller was at church with his family in Washington, DC. A prominent Latter-day Saint greeted him and began a conversation. Upon learning of Tueller’s career as a diplomat, the man declared, “You can’t be a good Latter-day Saint and be in the Foreign Service,” and abruptly walked away without explaining why the two were incompatible.
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Tyranny of the Urgent
My path to the US Department of State, like those of many others’, was not direct. I spent the 2018–19 year as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, but a delay in gaining an interim security clearance necessitated an adjustment in my plans.
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The Foreign Service: Springboard or Landing Pad
A diplomacy career is often considered to be a single, lifetime trajectory. While that may be true for some, many join the Foreign Service as a second career and others leave it for new opportunities. We reached out to Kennedy Center alumni to learn how the Foreign Service has been a springboard to a different career—or, for some, a landing pad.
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Perspectives in American Diplomacy
President Trump’s administration may well be judged almost entirely upon its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. As of this writing, it is too soon to tell what that judgment will be. In recent days we have certainly seen a more brusque relationship between China and the US as a result.
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A Coronavirus Exodus on a Diplomatic Passport
A consular-cone Foreign Service officer, Joey Leavitt, and his family braved ambiguous and ever-changing international immigration rules to travel from Dubai to Las Vegas in early April via London and Los Angeles. Leavitt rated and detailed their experience for us.
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Embassy Interns
Over the past several years, BYU has been on a roll: more than twenty students each year have been selected for Internships with the US Department of State.
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