Inventing public diplomacy : the story of the U.S. Information Agency /

Dizard, Wilson P.

Inventing public diplomacy : the story of the U.S. Information Agency / Wilson P. Dizard Jr. - 1 online resource (xv, 255 pages) : illustrations. - An ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy book . - ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series. .

"A ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index.

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.

"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.

9781626370043 (electronic bk.) 1626370044 (electronic bk.)


United States Information Agency--History.
United States Information Agency.


Since 1945


United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
United States -- Relations.
United States Information Agency -- History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--International Relations--General.
Diplomatic relations.
International relations.


United States--Relations.
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
United States--Foreign relations--1989-
États-Unis--Relations extérieures--1945-1989.
États-Unis--Relations extérieures--1989-
United States.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
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