The following websites are especially useful, interesting, or both. Please use the Contact page to notify us of dead or broken links.
Government
- US Department of State
- America.gov
- DipNote (State Department blog)
- State’s Civilian Response Corps – “Smart Power in Action”
- State on You Tube
- State answers the question, “What is diplomacy?”
- U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Commerce Department
- Department of Agriculture
- Office of Management and Budget
- House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Diplomacy and diplomatic history
- American Academy of Diplomacy
- American Diplomacy, online journal
- American Foreign Service Association (AFSA)
- Association for Diplomatic Studies & Training (ADST)
- Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide
- Frontline Diplomacy Oral History Collection
- Foreign Service Youth Foundation
- Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
- Library of Congress
- US Diplomacy.org
Career resources
- State Department Careers page
- USAID Careers page
- Commerce Department Careers page
- Department of Agriculture Careers page
- USAJobs.gov
- Yahoo FSWE Group
Foreign Service advocacy:
- AmericanDiplomacy.org
- Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU)
- Coalition for American Leadership Abroad (COLEAD)
- Foggy Bottom Society
- Global Leadership Campaign
- PublicDiplomacy.org
- PublicDiplomacyCouncil.org
- Una Chapman Cox Foundation
- University of Southern California’s Center for Public Diplomacy
Blogs and similar
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Consular Corner on Facebook is an offshoot of immigration website
- The Cable inside Foreign Policy Magazine covers State, AID, and other foreign affairs agencies
- Dipnote (official State Department blog)
- Diplopundit (foreign policy and the foreign service)
- Diplojournal (by an entering foreign service officer)
- The Hegemonist (about the foreign service)
- John Brown’s Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review
- Psydip (public diplomacy and psychology)
- Mountain Runner (public diplomacy)
- Whirled View (public diplomacy)
- Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance
- Two Crabs (by an aspiring foreign service officer)