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Author Dizard, Wilson P.

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

Publication Info. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 255 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series An ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy book
ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series.
Note "A ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index.
Contents The United States and ideological warfare -- USIA's wartime origins -- From hot war to cold war -- USIA : getting started -- The Murrow years -- High summer -- Playing bureaucratic games -- A stone's throw from the university -- The delicate art of exporting culture -- Sunset years -- The future of public diplomacy.
Summary "Public diplomacy - the uncertain art of winning public support abroad for one's government and its foreign policy - 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 policies 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 a history of U.S. efforts at organized international propaganda."--Jacket.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject United States Information Agency -- History.
United States Information Agency.
History.
United States -- Relations.
United States.
Relations.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
International relations.
Chronological Term 1945-1989
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
Chronological Term 1989-
Since 1945
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Dizard, Wilson P. Inventing public diplomacy 158826288X (DLC) 2004001829 (OCoLC)54400587
ISBN 9781626370043 (electronic book)
1626370044 (electronic book)
158826288X
9781588262882