The United States and Public Diplomacy

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-17691-1
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 766 g

Reihe: Diplomatic Studies

Public diplomacy is the art of cultivating public opinion to achieve foreign policy objectives. A vital tool in contemporary statecraft, public diplomacy is also one of the most poorly understood elements of a nation’s “soft power.”

'The United States and Public Diplomacy' adds historical perspective to the ongoing global conversation about public diplomacy and ist proper role in foreign affairs. It highlights the fact that the United States has not only been an important sponsor of public diplomacy, it also has been a frequent target of public diplomacy initiatives sponsored by others. Many of the essays in this collection look beyond Washington to explore the ways in which foreign states, non-governmental organizations, and private citizens have used public diplomacy to influence the government and people of the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Osgood, Kenneth. A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction: The New International History Meets the New Cultural History: Public Diplomacy and U.S. Foreign Relations

PART I:Public Diplomacy as International History
Chapter 1: The Anomaly of the Cold War: Cultural Diplomacy and Civil Society Since 1850
Chapter 2: The Problem of Power in Modern Public Diplomacy: The Netherlands Information Bureau and the United States in World War II and the Early Cold War
Chapter 3: Ethnicity, Security, and Public Diplomacy: Irish-Americans and Ireland’s Neutrality in World War II-
Chapter 4: Hollywood, Tourism, and Dictatorship: Samuel Bronston’s Special Relationship with the Franco Regime, 1957-73
Chapter 5: Supranational Public Diplomacy: The Evolution of the UN Department of Public Information and the Rise of Third World Advocacy

Chapter 6: Transnational Public Diplomacy: Assessing Salvadoran Revolutionary Efforts to Build U.S. Public Opposition to Reagan's Central American Policy

PART II: The United States and Public Diplomacy

Chapter 7: Foreign Relations as Domestic Affairs: The Role of the “Public” in Postwar American Public Diplomacy
Chapter 8: Crisis Management and Missed Opportunities: U.S. Public Diplomacy and the Creation of the Third World, 1947-50
Chapter 9: Film as Public Diplomacy: The USIA’s Cold War at Twenty-Four Frames per Second
Chapter 10: Mediating Public Diplomacy: Local Conditions and U.S. Public Diplomacy in Norway in the 1950s
Chapter 11: Domestic Politics and Public Diplomacy: Appalachian Cultural Exhibits and the Changing Nature of U.S. Public Diplomacy, 1964-72
Chapter 12: Networks of Influence: U.S. Exchange Programs and Western Europe in the 1980s
Giles Scott-Smith

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth Osgood, Ph.D. (2001) in History, University of California at Santa Barbara, is associate professor of history at Florida Altantic University. He is the author of Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad (2006).

Brian C. Etheridge, Ph.D. (2002) in History, The Ohio State University, is associate professor of history at and director of the U.S. Foreign Policy Center at Louisiana Tech University, where he also holds the John D. Winter Endowed Professorship in History.