A life in foreign service

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A life in foreign service

Ambassador James Dobbins, Bill Finan, and Fred Dews

July 14, 2017

U.S. special envoy James Dobbins (R) addresses reporters during a flag raising ceremnoy in U.S. embassy in Kabul December 17, 2001. The United States re-established a diplomatic presence in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Monday for the first time since its diplomats fled the city shortly before the end of the Soviet occupation in 1989.

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Ambassador James Dobbins discusses his new book Foreign Service: Five decades on the front lines of American diplomacy and his experiences working to advance U.S. national interests in some of the country’s most difficult situations.

Also in this episode: William Gale, the Arjay and and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy and a senior fellow in Economic Studies, recounts the Kansas tax cut experiment and outlines its implications for future tax reform efforts.

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Show notes:

Foreign Service: Five decades on the front lines of American diplomacy

Foreign Service: Five decades on the frontlines of American diplomacy (Interview with Peter Baker)

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