Inventing public diplomacy : the story of the U.S. Information Agency / Wilson P. Dizard Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dizard, Wilson P., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States Information Agency--History.

United States Information Agency.

United States--Relations.

United States.

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

United States--Foreign relations--1989-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Public diplomacy—the uncertain art of winning public support abroad for one's government and its foreign policies—constitutes a critical instrument of U.S. policy in the wake of the Bush administration's recent military interventions and its renunciation of widely accepted international accords. Wilson Dizard Jr. offers the first comprehensive account of public diplomacy's evolution within the U.S. foreign policy establishment, ranging from World War II to the present. Dizard focuses on the U. S. Information Agency and its precursor, the Office of War Information. Tracing the political ups and downs determining the agency's trajectory, he highlights its instrumental role in creating the policy and programs underpinning today's public diplomacy, as well as the people involved. The USIA was shut down in 1999, but it left an important legacy of what works—and what doesn't—in presenting U.S. policies and values to the rest of the world. Inventing Public Diplomacy is an unparalleled history of U.S. efforts at organized international propaganda.

Contents:

""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""1-The United States and Ideological Warfare""; ""Notes""; ""2-USIA�s Wartime Origins""; ""Notes""; ""3-From Hot War to Cold War""; ""Notes""; ""4-USIA: Getting Started""; ""Notes""; ""5-The Murrow Years""; ""Notes""; ""6-High Summer""; ""Notes""; ""7-Playing Bureaucratic Games""; ""Notes""; ""8-A Stone�s Throw from the University""; ""Notes""; ""9-The Delicate Art of Exporting Culture""; ""Notes""; ""10-Sunset Years""; ""Notes""; ""11-The Future of Public Diplomacy""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""

""About the Book""

Notes:

"A ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62637-004-4

1-58826-288-X

OCLC:

1334344002