In federal or descentralized countries with great regional diversity, such as Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Spain, and others, should foreign service recruitment policy applies domestic regional representation when choosing new diplomats? If the answer is yes, why? What kind of benefits a regional, state, provincial representation can bring to the country's foreign policy? Does it garantee a domestic equal vision and practice on how the state will or could act in foreign policy?
I think before representation competence should be considered.Once certain individual satisfies minimum requirement of competence,he deserves for recruitment irrespective of his area of living.
I do not know of any country that recognizes regional representation in the foreign service, or in general in the federal public administration.
However, the appointments of ambassadors, when ratified by the Senate, in cases such as the German, that its Federal Council is made up of representatives of the states and has the duty to represent them, we can guarantee that this ratification, the states are represented.
Similarly, Germany includes the Länders in the approval of international treaties that impact them, such as the Maastricht Treaty.
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