Thomas Costa

Diplomatic Security: Key Oversight Issues

In response to increasing threats to U.S. personnel and facilities at overseas diplomatic posts since 1998, the Department of State (State) has taken ...

Diplomatic Security: State Department Should Better Manage Risks to Residences and Other Soft Targets Overseas

What GAO Found The Department of State (State) conducts a range of activities to assess risks to residences overseas. For instance, State tracks infor...

Diplomatic Security: State Should Enhance Its Management of Transportation-Related Risks to Overseas U.S. Personnel

Is the State Department doing enough to keep U.S. personnel safe? U.S. personnel overseas can be targets of terrorism, violence, and crime—particula...

State Department: Leadership Focus Needed to Guide Agency Reform Efforts

The Department of State (State) is implementing most of the 17 reform projects it reported to Congress in February 2018, but a few are stalled or disc...

What They Know: Reflections of Vietnam

In a 1980s junior college classroom in western Florida, a young English professor assigns the first paper. Her students, of whom many are of Vietnames...

A Dream's Destination

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David Campbell

Story of a Career

"David Campbell: Story of a Career recounts the remarkable journey of an educator whose career exemplified how communication came of age as an academi...

The Khasis of Bangladesh

A Socio-economic Survey of the Khasi People of Bangladesh

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