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The Professionalization of the New Diplomacy*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Robert Rossow
Robert Rossow
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Office of Personnel of the Department of State
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The concept of a profession as a social institution is a rather nebulous one. It is sometimes used to refer to any clearly defined vocational group. More traditionally it refers to a “learned profession,” the classic examples of which are divinity, medicine, and the law. The Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (Vol. XII, p. 478) defines a profession, in this sense, as “a vocation founded upon prolonged and specialized intellectual training which enables a particular service to be rendered.” It is this meaning of the term that is here intended.

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Research Article
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World Politics , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , July 1962 , pp. 561 - 575
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1962

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References

1 Cleveland, Harlan, Mangone, Gerard J., and Adams, John Clarke, The Overseas Americans, New York, 1960.Google Scholar

2 SirNicolson, Harold, Diplomacy, London, Oxford University Press, 1950, ch. 5.Google Scholar

3 The tendency is not confined to the United States. See ibid., pp. 12–14.

4 Cleveland, Mangone, and Adams, op.cit., Part IV.

5 Northrop, F. S. C., Philosophical Anthropology and Practical Politics, New York, 1960Google Scholar, and The Meeting of East and West, New York, 1946.