Practicing Public Diplomacy : : A Cold War Odyssey / / Yale Richmond.

• VerfasserIn: Richmond, Yale,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Explorations in Culture and International History ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACRONYMS --; FOREWORD --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION --; Chapter 1 DOING DEMOCRACY IN DEUTSCHLAND --; Chapter 2 NATION BUILDING IN LAOS --; Chapter 3 BACK TO THE BOOKS --; Chapter 4 A VOICE TO VIETNAM --; Chapter 5 POLAND—RUSSIA’S WINDOW ON THE WEST --; Chapter 6 VIENNESE VIGNETTES --; Chapter 7 EAST EUROPEAN EXCHANGES --; Chapter 8 MOSCOW AND MORE --; Chapter 9 SHAFTED BY SHAKESPEARE --; Chapter 10 DOING DÉTENTE AT THE DEPARTMENT --; Chapter 11 USIA + CU = USICA --; Chapter 12 HELSINKI AND HUMAN RIGHTS --; Chapter 13 DOING DEMOCRACY AT NED --; AFTERWORD --; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857450135
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857450135
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Yale Richmond.

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 US 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 DC with the State Department, the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress, and the National Endowment for Democracy. Part history, part memoir, it takes readers into the trenches of the Cold War and demonstrates what public diplomacy can do. It also provides examples of what could be done today in countries where anti-Americanism runs high.