Isolate or engage : adversarial states, US foreign policy, and public diplomacy / edited by Geoffrey Wiseman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wiseman, Geoffrey, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989--Case studies.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--1989---Case studies.

Diplomatic relations.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 313 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Adversarial states, US foreign policy, and public diplomacy

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]

Summary:

The US government has essentially two choices when dealing with adversarial states-isolate them or engage them. Isolate or Engage systematically examines the challenges to and opportunities for US diplomatic relations with nine intensely adversarial states-China, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, USSR/Russia, Syria, Venezuela, and Vietnam: states where the situation is short of conventional war and where the U.S. maintains limited or no formal diplomatic relations with the government. In such circumstances, "public diplomacy"-the means by which the US engages with citizens in other countries so they will push their own governments to adopt less hostile and more favorable views of U.S. foreign policies-becomes extremely important for shaping the context within which the adversarial government makes important decisions affecting US national security interests. This book examines the role of both traditional and public diplomacy with adversarial states and reviews the costs and benefits of US diplomatic engagement with the publics of these countries. Book jacket.

Contents:

Soviet Union/Russia : US diplomacy with the Russian "adversary" / Robert D. English

China : American public diplomacy and US-China relations : 1949 to 2012 / Robert S. Ross

North Korea : engaging a hermit adversarial state / Scott Snyder

Vietnam : American and Vietnamese public diplomacy, 1945/2010 / Mark P. Bradley and Viet Nguyen

Libya : the United States and the Libyan Jamahiriyya : from isolation to regional ally, 1969/2011 / Dirk J. Vandewalle

Iran : public diplomacy in a vacuum / Suzanne Maloney

Syria : public diplomacy in Syria : overcoming obstacles / William Rugh

Cuba : public diplomacy as a "battle of ideas" / William LeoGrande

Venezuela : the United States and Venezuela : managing a schizophrenic relationship / Michael Shifter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804793889

0804793883

9780804795524

0804795525

OCLC:

894746229