Hitting Bottom in Foggy Bottom: The State Department Suffers from Low Morale, Bottlenecks, and Bureaucratic Ineptitude. Do We Need to Kill It to Save It?

Abstract

The article presents a reprint of the article "Hitting Bottom in Foggy Bottom: The State department Suffers from Low Morale, Bottlenecks and Bureaucratic Ineptitude: Do We Need to Kill It to Save It?," by Matthew Armstrong, which appeared in the September 11, 2009 issue of "Foreign Policy." The article discusses the U.S. secretary of State, Hilary Clinton and several problems within the U.S. State Department and the department's future.