On this week’s episode of “Conversations with Nicholas Kralev,” American Foreign Service Association President Susan Johnson talks about the varying value the U.S. places on diplomacy, investing in a professional diplomatic service, and the State Department’s “struggle” to explain to Americans what it does.
On this week’s episode of “Conversations with Nicholas Kralev,” the director-general of the U.S. Foreign Service, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, talks about recruiting, selecting and training America’s diplomats, and what it takes to maintain 275 diplomatic posts around the world.
In the premiere episode of “Conversations with Nicholas Kralev,” Ambassador Thomas Pickering, former undersecretary of state for political affairs and chairman of the Benghazi Accountability Review Board, talks about the Benghazi investigation, the conflict in Syria and Iran’s nuclear program. The full episode is below.