{"id":8300,"date":"2013-03-21T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8300"},"modified":"2013-03-21T00:46:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T04:46:10","slug":"should-america-have-inexperienced-ambassadors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/should-america-have-inexperienced-ambassadors\/","title":{"rendered":"Should America Have Inexperienced Ambassadors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032113_0422_ShouldAmeri1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-becoming-an-ambassador\/\">previously covered<\/a> how being the American ambassador to Austria costs just $1.3 million. Nicholas Kralev looked at the pros and cons of this practice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wealthy donors who are appointed to ambassadorships around the world generally have a close working relationship with the President.<\/li>\n<li>Having no experience in foreign policy before they can also bring innovation to the post and challenge traditional kinds of thinking.<\/li>\n<li>They normally have extensive management and leadership experience. They may also be wealthy enough to fund glamorous parties and receptions.<\/li>\n<li>Yet in the end these are inexperienced individuals responsible for helping conduct America&#8217;s foreign policy \u2013 no different than, say, a General.<\/li>\n<li>Often inexperienced appointees won&#8217;t speak the language of the country they&#8217;re assigned too and might even have their own personal agenda to promote in the country.<\/li>\n<li>The State Department oversees two weeks of training for new ambassadors. After that they&#8217;re mostly on their own.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more thoughts about the practice, some examples of the inexperienced appointees that have been successful, and some of the abject disasters over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2013\/03\/being-good-at-raising-money-doesnt-make-you-a-good-diplomat\/274148\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2013\/03\/being-good-at-raising-money-doesnt-make-you-a-good-diplomat\/274148\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve previously covered how being the American ambassador to Austria costs just $1.3 million. Nicholas Kralev looked at the pros and cons of this practice: Wealthy donors who are appointed to ambassadorships around the world generally have a close working relationship with the President. Having no experience in foreign policy before they can also bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032113_0422_ShouldAmeri1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8306,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions\/8306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}