/ Front Cover
3-4 / Table of Contents
5 / PRESIDENT’S VIEWS
Self-Help
By John K. Naland
6 / LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
8 / CYBERNOTES
11 / MARKETPLACE
12 / SPEAKING OUT
AFRICOM & SOUTHCOM: Reliquaria from an Earlier Era
By David Passage
FOCUS ON GLOBAL ENERGY
16 / STRIKING WHILE THE IRON IS HOT
The convergence of the need for economic stimulus plans, lower-carbon energy sources and infrastructure renewal is a historic moment.
By William C. Ramsay
21 / CAPITALIZING ON A STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY
By taking the lead to address climate change, the U.S. can shift global economic and environmental dynamics.
By Sarah Ladislaw
FEATURE
27 / IMPROVING THE PRT-MILITARY PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP
A U.S. Army member of an Iraq Provincial Reconstruction Team offers practical advice to Foreign Service colleagues.
By Sean P. Walsh
FS HERITAGE
30 / THE COURAGEOUS DIPLOMACY OF EBENEZER D. BASSETT
The heroism, integrity and concern for human rights of the first African-American diplomat to serve as a U.S. chief of mission set a powerful example.
By Christopher J. Teal
APPRECIATION
36 / PASSAGE OF A GLOBAL NOMAD: Norma M. McCaig, 1945-2008
By Mikkela Thompson
AFSA NEWS
39 / ANNUAL OPINION POLL YIELDS RECORD NUMBER OF RESPONSES
39 / RENOVATION UPDATE
40 / NEWS BRIEFS AND AGGELER
43 / 2008 TAX GUIDE
57 / CLASSIFIEDS
59 / BOOKS
62 / IN MEMORY
68 / REAL ESTATE
70 / INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
72 / REFLECTIONS
A Confrontation in Moscow
By Kempton Jenkins
January 2009 
(Vol. 86, No. 1)
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/ Front Cover
3-4 / Table of Contents
5 / PRESIDENT’S VIEWS
Renewing American Diplomacy
By John K. Naland
7 / LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
10 / CYBERNOTES
12 / MARKETPLACE
13 / SPEAKING OUT
Let’s Help “H” Make the Case for State
By Stetson Sanders
16 / LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
FOCUS ON TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY
18 / GLOBAL REPOSITIONING IN PERSPECTIVE
Global repositioning is a key element of Secretary of State Rice’s signature initiative. Here is a sober look at the program.
By Shawn Dorman
31 / THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF DEMOCRACY PROMOTION
U.S. democracy promotion policy appears to be at a crossroads, with big divisions within both parties over how much of it we should be doing.
By Robert McMahon
40 / MEPI: ADDING TO THE DIPLOMATIC TOOLBOX
Despite many obstacles, the Middle East Partnership Initiative has come a long way in the past five years.
By Peter F. Mulrean
FEATURES
46 / MENTAL HEALTH CARE AT STATE: A BROKEN SYSTEM
Foreign Service employees have incentives to hide their mental health treatment or, worse, to let their problems go untreated.
By Anonymous
48 / THE BLACK SWAN COMES HOME
A letter discovered in the Embassy Paris mailroom in 2003 helped solve a 60-year-old mystery. Here is the rest of the story.
By Douglas W. Wells
AFSA NEWS
55 / AFSA WELCOMES NEW ADMINISTRATION
55 / DISSENT AWARDS NOMINATIONS — LAST CALL
55 / SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS DEADLINE
56 / NEWS BRIEFS
57 / VP STATE: A MIXED REPORT CARD
58 / VP USAID: ADVICE FOR THE NEW USAID ADMINISTRATOR
59 / ISSUE BRIEF: FILLING NEW MID-LEVEL POSITIONS
60 / FINANCIAL AID scholars
65 / 2009 MEMBERSHIP DUES
65 / CLASSIFIEDS
67 / BOOKS
72 / REAL ESTATE
74 / INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
76 / REFLECTIONS
Dean Rusk and Rolling Thunder
By John J. St. John
