The United States and public diplomacy : new directions in cultural and international history / / edited by Kenneth A. Osgood and Brian C. Etheridge.

• Superior document: Diplomatic studies, v. 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Osgood, Kenneth Alan, 1971-; Etheridge, Brian Craig, 1973-
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Diplomatic studies ; v. 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

""The United States and Public Diplomacy"" adds historical perspective to the ongoing global conversation about public diplomacy and its proper role in foreign affairs. It highlights the fact that the United States has not only been an important sponsor of public diplomacy, it also has been a frequent target of public diplomacy initiatives sponsored by others. Many of the essays in this collection look beyond Washington to explore the ways in which foreign states, non-governmental organizations, and private citizens have used public diplomacy to influence the government and people of the United

Table of Contents

The anomaly of the Cold War : cultural diplomacy and civil society since 1850 / Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht -- The problem of power in modern public diplomacy. The Netherlands Information Bureau in World War II and the early Cold War / David J. Snyder -- Ethnicity, security, and public diplomacy : Irish-Americans and Ireland's neutrality in World War II / John Day Tully -- Hollywood, tourism, and dictatorship : Samuel Bronston's special relationship with the Franco regime, 1957-1973 / Neal M. Rosendorf -- Supranational public diplomacy: the evolution of the UN Department of Public Information and the rise of third world advocacy / Seth Center -- Transnational public diplomacy : assessing Salvadoran revolutionary efforts to build U.S. public opposition to Reagan's Central American policy / Héctor Perla Jr. -- Foreign relations as domestic affairs : the role of the "public" in the origins of U.S. public diplomacy / Justin Hart -- Crisis management and missed opportunities : U.S. public diplomacy and the creation of the third world, 1947-1950 / Jason C. Parker -- Film as public diplomacy: the USIA's Cold War at twenty-four frames per second / Nicholas J. Cull -- Mediating public diplomacy : local conditions and U.S. public diplomacy in Norway in the 1950s / Helge Danielsen -- Domestic politics and public diplomacy : Appalachian cultural exhibits and the changing nature of U.S. public diplomacy, 1964-1972 / Michael L. Krenn -- Networks of influence : U.S. exchange programs and Western Europe in the 1980s / Giles Scott-Smith.