One of the things we to do is we have a postdoctoral program, we have a number of postdoctoral fellows here at sais this year with us doing their work. And one of them has just finished a book before she got here, and we were really delighted to end publicize it and the first public release of the book. So cornelia has this new book. So, peace, security and defense cooperation in postbrexit europe. Pretty timely. Shes been working with her colleagues on those questions. So we thought the context of the book would be good to talk about a very timely issue now, which is whats going on with brexit, what does it mean not only for the u. K. And the e. U. Member states, but also for broader Security Issues which start to affect, of course, u. S. Interests quite intensely . So what well do is i will just briefly introduce the speakers. You have had an invitation and so on, more about their backgrounds, but just to keep it brief, i want to have cornelia tell us briefly about the book, and then
Carolinas, and saying, as a conservative republican this has to happen have to have a fair fight. Our argument is that our job is to say, look, we can have honest differences on all sorts of fundamental issues but we ought to have a politics that works in this country and isnt just about big money, and during the shutdown fight issue thought republicans, members of Congress Talking about bailouts for corporations and complaining about this maybe there was some cynicism there. Im not sure. I will tell you i think theres an immense amount of space and we have not begun to occupy that space. We have not begun to make those demands for the structural changes. Its time to do that. Its time to say that a conservative republican and a liberal democrat, ought to be able to agree that everyone should be able to vote, that our elections should have meaning, and that the vote ought to matter more than the dollar. Im delighted, if thats the framework of the debate, ill debate anyone on that issue.
Booktv interi viewed Hoover Institution fellow kori schake about her book, state of disrepair, which takes a critical look at the performance of the state department. Its next on booktv. Host on your screen is author kori schake, the book is called state of repair fixing the culture and practices of the state department. Kori schake, you write that the department of state employee roster consists of roughly 7800 Foreign Service officers,11,000 Civil Servants and 42,000 foreign nationals. In 09, 16,000 applicants took the written test to join the Foreign Service competing for roughly 1,000 jobs. The people selected have college degrees, 11 years of prior Work Experience before coming into the Foreign Service. Twothirds of people selected for the Foreign Service come in with postgraduate degrees, 80 have lived overseas. Foreign Service Officers are awarded tenure after four years. 95 percent of the serving officers receive ten your. 25 of all our diplomats are concentrated in only 30 cou
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