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Background Reading:

Madeline Albright, Madame Secretary: A Memoir (Miramax, 2005).

American Academy of Diplomacy, "A Foreign Affairs Budget For the Future: Fixing the Crisis in Diplomatic Readiness" (2008), available at: http://www.academyofdiplomacy.org/publications/Long_Final_10_22_08.pdf.

George L. Argyros, Marc Grossman, and Felix G. Rohatyn.  “The Embassy of the Future”. CSIS Report. (2007) Available at: http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/embassy_of_the_future.pdf.

James Baker, The Politics of Diplomacy (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995).

Warren Christopher, In the Stream of History: Shaping Foreign Policy for a New Era (Stanford University Press, 1998).

Diplopedia: Encyclopedia of the U.S. State Department, available on the internal State Dept. network.

Shawn Dorman, ed. Inside a U.S. Embassy: How the Foreign Service Works for America (Washington, DC: American Foreign Service Association).

The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (Library of Congress), available at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/diplomacy/

Henry Kissinger, “Years of Upheaval, 1973-1977” (New York: Little Brown and Company, 1982).

Harry W. Kopp and Charles A. Gillespie, “Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the U.S. Foreign Service”.  (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2008).

Condoleezza Rice, “Remarks at Georgetown School of Foreign Service on January 18, 2006,” available at: http://gos.sbc.edu/r/rice3.html.

George P. Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (New York: Scribner's 1993).

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