A PRACTICUM IN DIPLOMACY

with Ambassador Genta Hawkins Holmes
University of California Davis, Spring Term, 2005

The Countries: Background Reading and Intelligence Sources

Use these links to navigate to the readings page for each country:

Haiti

Bahrain

Botswana

Bosnia and Herzogovina

Additional Reading Assigned:

(NOTE: The additional reading assignments associated with each country appear on the country pages.  They can be reached using the links, above).

For week 2 (April 13):

*Shawn Dorman (ed.), INSIDE A U.S. EMBASSY: HOW THE FOREIGN SERVICE WORKS FOR AMERICA, 2nd ed. (Washington D.C.: American Foreign Service Association, 2003).

*This is a required text for the course and can purchased from the UC Davis Bookstore.

Chester A. Crocker, A Dubious Template for US Foreign Policy, 47 SURVIVAL 51-70 (2005). (This is a link to a pdf copy of the article on the course server.)

"America's Other Army: Inside the Foreign Service" by Nicholas Kralev of the Washington Times

Part I:  "I am on the President's Agenda"
Part II:  Diplomats Fight their Stuffed-White-Shirt Image
Part III: Diplomacy Adapts to New Threats
Part IV:  Cultural Diplomacy Pays Off
Part V:  Consular Services Changed after 9/11
Part VI: Embassy Bombings Spur Security Boost                     
Part VII: Diplomatic Reorientation                                          
Part VIII: Ups and Downs of Diplomacy

Country Maps Page