After four years of a “hollowing out” of the State Department, the U.S. Foreign Service looks to the future. Many voices have come forward proposing solutions on how to bring the service into a new modern era. Ambassadors Marc Grossman and Eric Rubin give a rundown on how the Foreign Service got to this point, what problems within the service predate the Trump years, and what needs to be done going forward.

Read the Belfer Center report: A U.S. Diplomatic Service for the 21st Century.

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Music: “Side Hustle” by Otis Galloway [License: CC BY 4.0]

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