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Bringing the State Department to the States: How a Domestic Service Requirement Would Strengthen American Foreign Policy
['Matt Petit', 'K. Sabeel Rahman', 'Sam Berger', 'Just Security', 'Andrew Leber', 'Alasdair Phillips-Robins', 'Sarah Buckley', 'Andy Wright', 'Tara Ganapathy', 'Michael Schmitt']
Just Security
Both have led time and again to foreign policy results with which the American people disagree.
Experts have fretted that the loss of an apolitical, expert service is resulting in bad foreign policy.
Young people in particular feel negatively about once-core foreign policy principles, such as U.S. support to Israel.
Instead of shuttling only between overseas tours and Washington, State must create a domestic service requirement and the infrastructure to support it.
The administration and State begin work with Congress on necessary changes to the Foreign Service Act of 1980, to include requiring domestic service for promotion into and through the Senior Foreign Service.