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Practicing public diplomacy : a Cold War odyssey / Yale Richmond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richmond, Yale.
- Series:
- Explorations in culture and international history series ; 5.
- Explorations in culture and international history series ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Richmond, Yale.
- United States Information Agency--Biography.
- United States Information Agency.
- Cold War.
- Diplomats--United States--Biography.
- Diplomats.
- Diplomats--United States--History--20th century.
- Public relations and politics--United States--History--20th century.
- Public relations and politics.
- Cultural relations--History--20th century.
- Cultural relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
- United States.
- United States--Relations--Communist countries.
- Communist countries--Relations--United States.
- Communist countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- There is much discussion these days about Public Diplomacy - communicating directly with the people of other countries rather than through their diplomats - but little information about what it actually entails. This book does exactly that by detailing the doings of a U.S. Foreign Service Cultural Officer in five hot spots of the Cold War - Germany, Laos, Poland, Austria, and the Soviet Union - as well as service in Washington D.C. with the State Department, the Helsinki Commission of the U.S. Congress, and the National Endowment for Democracy. Part history, part memoir, it takes readers into
- Contents:
- Title page-Practicing public diplomacy; Contents; Acronyms; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Ch 1-Doing democracy in Deutschland; Ch 2-Nation building in Laos; Ch 3-Back to the books; Ch 4-A voice to Vietnam; Ch 5-Poland-Russia's window on the west; Ch 6-Viennese vignettes; Ch 7-East European exchanges; Ch 8-Moscow and more; Ch 9-Shafted by Shakespeare; Ch 10-Doing detente at the department; Ch 11-USIA + CU =USICA; Ch 12-Helsinka and Human Rights; Ch 13-Doing democracy at NED; Afterword; Selected bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-168) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612626654
- 9781282626652
- 1282626655
- 9780857450135
- 0857450131
- OCLC:
- 667105328
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