foreign service

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Michael holds a B.S. in foreign service from Georgetown University, an M.A. in Russian studies from Indiana University at Bloomington and a PhD in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

And then they tell the career civil servants and foreign service officers and military people, “This is what we want to get at the negotiating table. How do we do that?”

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2025

"I see foreign service officers that have spent their entire lives serving - a large part of it overseas - and the sacrifices they made," they said.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025

Not long after that job ended, Merry retired from the foreign service.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2024

Here he is in a regiment which in a year or so will go on foreign service; he is mad enough to intend to go with it, and where is he then?

From A Search For A Secret (Vol 1 of 3) A Novel by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)