Let's think of it another way. --- It is clearly essential to have a sufficient number of diplomatic personnel to advance the home country's interests. But just adding more staff actually leads to problems....As an ambassador, I preferred the embassy to be slightly overworked, for people to have lots of real work to do....That kept them out of mischief, or frivolous activity. Not to beat my drum, but I urge the Class to skim (don''t read all the details!!). The long first book chapter is on my experience in Germany (1992-95), mainly focused on economic diplomacy. [Since the link to this book is again out of order, I am sending this chapter as a PDF via a message].

Source author: Kishan S Rana kishanrana@gmail.com