During his time in the Foreign Service he was posted in Buenos Aires, Argentina (political officer, 1990), Tel Aviv, Israel (science attaché), Lilongwe, Malawi (Deputy Chief of Mission), and Monrovia, Liberia (Deputy Chief of Mission).
His final assignment for the State Department was as senior advisor on Africa at the Carter Center in Atlanta working on projects in democracy and conflict resolution.
[1] Berenson's parents said that Jett's article was "intensely poisonous" and contained "outrageously mean-spirited, blatantly inaccurate, and erroneous statements about her to discredit support for her release from her wrongful six-year and four-month incarceration."
After years of denials by her parents, in mid-2010 Berenson confessed that she had knowing aided the MRTA when she wrote to the pardon commission and to Peruvian President Alan Garcia admitting to her "criminal collaboration with a terrorist organization.
In the summer 2008 he moved to the Pennsylvania State University to become part of the inaugural faculty of the newly created School of International Affairs.
His third book, "American Ambassadors - The Past, Present and Future of America's Diplomats," (Palgrave Macmillan) was published in 2014 and a revised, second edition is scheduled to come out at the end of 2021.