Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the U.S. Information Agency
by Wilson P Jr Dizard
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Public diplomacy ?the uncertain art of winning public support abroad for one's government and its foreign policies ?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 show more 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 policy 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 an unparalleled history of U.S. efforts at organized international propaganda. show lessTags
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Wilson Dizard, Jr., who died unexpectedly in mid-2009, was the author of eight books and numerous scholarly articles. A retired professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, he lived in Washington, D.C.
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- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, History
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- 327.1 — Society, government, & culture Political science International Relations: Spies Foreign policy and specific topics in international relations
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- E840.2 .D59 — History of the United States United States Later twentieth century, 1961-2000 Diplomatic history. Foreign and general
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