The craft of political analysis for diplomats /
Author Raymond F. Smith combines a practitioner's personal view of what is required to do good diplomatic political analysis with his understanding of the social conflict and change that informed his work for the State Department.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Potomac Books,
[2011]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series ;
v. 48. |
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Table of Contents:
- Glossary of common State Department terms
- What is political analysis and why is it a craft?
- The objectives of diplomatic political analysis
- The audience
- The competition
- The analyst's personal toolkit
- The analytic tools
- Criteria for superior reporting: the State Department view
- Case study: the collapse of the Soviet Union (1): early embassy Moscow views
- Case study: the collapse of the Soviet Union (2): coup against Gorbachev
- The compass and the weather vane
- Technological change, the risk of irrelevance, and the continuing need.