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A Foreign Service Officer (FSO) is a commissioned member of the United States Foreign Service. As diplomats, Foreign Service Officers formulate and implement the foreign policy of the United States. FSOs spend most of their careers overseas as members of U.S. embassies, consulates, and other diplomatic missions, though some receive assignments to combatant command, Congress, and educational institutions such as the various U.S. War Colleges. Within the Foreign Service, they are also known as Generalists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=U.S. Department of State )〕 Foreign Service Officers, who occupy most of the top tiers of the Foreign Service, are one of five categories of Foreign Service employees. Other categories include Foreign Service Nationals and Specialists (e.g., Special Agents of the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service).〔H. Kopp and C. Gillespie, ''Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the U.S. Foreign Service'', 2008.〕 ==FSO career tracks== Currently, there are five career tracks (called cones) for State Department Foreign Service Generalists: Consular Officers, Economic Officers, Management Officers, Political Officers, and Public Diplomacy Officers.〔 Consular Officers are charged primarily with working with American citizens with activities such as adoptions and would be charged with evacuating Americans from the country in the case of a disaster. Economic Officers work with foreign economic agencies to facilitate economic issues as well as foreign policy dealing with technology and sciences. Management Officers are responsible for the affairs of an embassy or consulate and dealing with the personnel and budgets of the embassy. Political Officers have the responsibility of interacting with foreign governments on policy issues and negotiating policy. Lastly, Public Diplomacy Officers inform the citizens of their respective countries on the actions of the embassy, including meeting with the press and giving educational events. FSOs of the U.S. Agency for International Development ((USAID )), Commercial Service, Foreign Agricultural Service, and Broadcasting Board of Governors are selected through processes specific to the hiring agency, and follow career tracks separate from those of State Department FSOs. For example, within USAID, there are multiple technical "(backstops )" including: * Agriculture * Contracting * Crisis Stabilization and Governance * Economic Growth * Engineering * Environment * Executive * Financial Management * Legal * Population, Health and Nutrition * Private Enterprise * Program/Project Development In 2009, there were about 6,600 FSOs working at the Department of State,〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2010-09-03 )〕 1,000 at the Agency for International Development, 220 at the Department of Commerce, and 180 at the Department of Agriculture.〔United States Foreign Service〕 Most leadership roles at U.S. embassies are filled from the ranks of career FSOs. Normally, about two-thirds of U.S. Ambassadors are career Foreign Service Officers primarily drawn from the Department of State, although all five foreign affairs agencies have produced Ambassadors from time to time. Almost all of the remaining third are political appointees, though a handful of State Department Senior Executive Service personnel have received Ambassadorships. FSOs also fill critical management and foreign policy positions at the headquarters of foreign affairs agencies in Washington, D.C. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Foreign Service Officer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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