FSOT State Department question and answers 2023 graded A+

FSOT State Department question and answers 2023 graded A+Foreign Service Act of 1980 - correct answer The most fundamental overhaul of the foreign service since its creation in 1924. Addressed beauracratic fragmentation by creating a single foreign service that could be used by any government agency to carry out work abroad. Laid down basic rules such as rank-in-person, worldwide availability, up or out, and early retirement. transformational diplomacy - correct answer basically this consists in working with the partners of the United States with a view to 'build and sustain democratic, well-governed states that will respond to the needs of their people and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system.' In other words, instead of focusing on relations between states, acting on the states themselves in order to prevent terrorism, etc. diplomatic immunity - correct answer Diplomats are subject to the laws of the state that sends them but are exempt from the laws of the state that receives them. S/he cannot be arrested or detained, is immune to criminal (and I some cases civil and administrative jurisdictions) of the host country, and their property cannot be seized. Immunities extend to family members. A state can wave a diplomat's immunity. The rights and obligations of sending and receiving states and their envoys were codified in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) and Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (1963). National Security Act 1947 - correct answer This act was a major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II. It provided for a single Department of Defense, gave statutory status to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, established a National Security Council to advise the President (which included the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and other members such as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency), and created a Central Intelligence Agency to gather information and to correlate and evaluate intelligence activities around the world. flexible response - correct answer Foreign policy developed under President Kennedy in response to President Eisenhower's New Look policy. Many felt that a new, more-flexible approach was needed to address communist-inspired revolutions in Third World countries. Kennedy's administration believed that the United States should have a wide variety of military and nonmilitary responses to such communist provocations. Kennedy presented to Congress an outline of a strategy that would come to be known as Flexible Deterrent Options in March 1961, and it was adopted as an official national security