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1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
The U.S. 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 U.S. diplomatic relations with nine intensely adversarial states-China, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, U.S.S.R./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 U.S. engages with citizens in other co. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989 -- Case studies.
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United States. |
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International relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1945-1989 |
| Subject |
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- -- Case studies.
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| Chronological Term |
1989- |
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Since 1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Wiseman, Geoffrey, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Isolate or engage. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015] 9780804793889 (DLC) 2014044179 (OCoLC)894746229 |
| ISBN |
9780804795555 (electronic book) |
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080479555X (electronic book) |
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9780804793889 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804793883 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804795524 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0804795525 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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