Download or read book Nontraditional U S Public Diplomacy written by Anthony Quainton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume showcases key innovations and lessons in U.S. diplomacy since World War One. It delivers to practitioners, analysts, students, and others compelling engagement strategies and primary research for shaping and communicating policy among increasingly diverse, collaborative, and powerful publics. The table of contents follows below: Acknowledgments Adam Clayton Powell III, President, Public Diplomacy Council ..............................vi 1.Introduction Deborah L. Trent .......................................................1 2.Public Diplomacy: Can It Be Defined? Anthony C. E. Quainton .....................................................25 3.Janus-Faced Public Diplomacy: Creel and Lippmann During the Great War John Brown .....................................................43 4.The Uses and Abuses of Public Diplomacy: Winning and Losing Hearts and Minds Dick Virden ....................................................73 5.America's Image Abroad: The UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention and U.S. Motion Picture Exports Carol Balassa ................................................ ...95 6.Diplomacy and the Efficacy of Transnational Applied Cultural Networks Robert Albro ..................................................121 7.Public Diplomacy Engages Religious Communities, Actors, and Organizations: A Belated and Transformative Marriage Peter Kovach ..................................................145 8.Nontraditional Public Diplomacy in the Iraq-Afghan Wars Or The Ups and Downs of Strategic Communicators Helle C. Dale ..................................................171 9.Cultural Diplomacy Partnerships: Cracking the Credibility Nut with Inclusive Participation Deborah L. Trent ..................................................191 10.International Education and Public Diplomacy: Technology, MOOCs, and Transforming Engagement Craig Hayden ..................................................219 11.Funding International Scientific Research Activities as Opportunities for Public Diplomacy Jong-on Hahm ..................................................248 12.Turning Point Brian E. Carlson ..................................................266 Index .........................................291 Acronyms ...................................299 Contributor Biographies ................301

Download or read book The United States and Public Diplomacy written by Kenneth. A. Osgood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public diplomacy is the art of cultivating public opinion to achieve foreign policy objectives. A vital tool in contemporary statecraft, public diplomacy is also one of the most poorly understood elements of a nation’s “soft power.” 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 States.

Download or read book U S Public Diplomacy written by Kennon H. Nakamura and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public diplomacy describes a government¿s efforts to conduct foreign policy and promote national interests through direct outreach and commun. with the population of a foreign country. Activities include providing info. to foreign publics through broadcast and Internet media and at libraries and other outreach facilities in foreign countries; conducting cultural diplomacy, such as art exhibits and music performances; and admin. internat. educational and professional exchange programs. This report discusses the issues concerning U.S. public diplomacy. Determining levels of public diplomacy funding. Establishing capabilities to improve monitoring and assessment of public diplomacy activities. Charts and tables.

Download or read book The Origins of Public Diplomacy in US Statecraft written by Caitlin E. Schindler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines historic examples of US public diplomacy in order to understand how past uses and techniques of foreign public engagement evolved into modern public diplomacy as a tool of American statecraft. The study explores six historic cases where the United States’ government or private American citizens actively engaged with foreign publics, starting with the American Revolution in 1776 through the passage of the Smith-Mundt Bill of 1948. Each case looks specifically at the role foreign public engagement plays in American statecraft, while also identifying trends in American foreign public engagement and making connections between past practice of foreign public engagement and public diplomacy, and analyzing how trends and past practice or experience influenced modern American public diplomacy.

Download or read book The Future of U S Public Diplomacy written by Kathy Fitzpatrick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public diplomacy has never been more important in international relations. Yet, public diplomacy’s future as a valued national resource and a respected profession is far from certain. Lingering historical misperceptions and contemporary debate regarding public diplomacy’s role and value in protecting and advancing national and international interests threaten public diplomacy’s advancement on both fronts. Grounded in public relations theory and steeped in common sense, this book advances the global debate on public diplomacy’s future by documenting the intellectual and practical development of public diplomacy in the United States and analyzing key challenges ahead. The author’s fresh perspective provides compelling insights into public diplomacy's purpose and value, the conceptual foundations of the discipline, and principles of strategic practice. Based on extensive primary and secondary research, including a comprehensive survey of veteran U.S. public diplomats, the book reveals lessons learned from the U.S. experience in public diplomacy that will be critical in determining public diplomacy's fate in the United States and throughout the world.

Download or read book American Diplomacy s Public Dimension written by Bruce Gregory and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-27 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to frame U.S. public diplomacy in the broad sweep of American diplomatic practice from the early colonial period to the present. It tells the story of how change agents in practitioner communities – foreign service officers, cultural diplomats, broadcasters, citizens, soldiers, covert operatives, democratizers, and presidential aides – revolutionized traditional government-to-government diplomacy and moved diplomacy with the public into the mainstream. This deeply researched study bridges practice and multi-disciplinary scholarship. It challenges the common narrative that U.S. public diplomacy is a Cold War creation that was folded into the State Department in 1999 and briefly found new life after 9/11. It documents historical turning points, analyzes evolving patterns of practice, and examines societal drivers of an American way of diplomacy: a preference for hard power over soft power, episodic commitment to public diplomacy correlated with war and ambition, an information-dominant communication style, and American exceptionalism. It is an account of American diplomacy’s public dimension, the people who shaped it, and the socialization and digitalization that today extends diplomacy well beyond the confines of embassies and foreign ministries.

Download or read book Inventing Public Diplomacy written by Wilson P. Dizard and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.

Download or read book USIA written by Allen C. Hansen and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1989-07-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed study of how the U.S. Information Agency carries out its mission, and how it might improve. It outlines changes since 1984, summarizes former director Charles Z. Wick's accomplishments, and forecasts future possibilities under a new leadership. Advocating a greater focus on the Third World, the author describes how glasnost has affected U.S.-Soviet relations. The Worldnet innovation and Voice of America's modernization are some of the aspects of USIA operations presented by the author. ISBN 0-275-93112-9: $45.00.

Download or read book Front Line Public Diplomacy written by W. Rugh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first-ever close and up-to-date look at how American diplomats working at our embassies abroad communicate with foreign audiences to explain US foreign policy and American culture and society. Projecting an American voice abroad has become more difficult in the twenty-first century, as terrorists and others hostile to America use modern communication means to criticize us, and as new communication tools have greatly expanded the worldwide discussion of issues important to us, so that terrorists and others hostile to us have added negative voices to the global dialogue. It analyzes the communication tools our public diplomacy professionals use, and how they employ interpersonal and language skills to engage our critics. It shows how they overcome obstacles erected by unfriendly governments, and explains that diplomats do not simply to reiterate set policy formulations but engage a variety of people from different cultures in a creative ways to increase their understanding of America.

Download or read book Public Diplomacy written by Charles Wolf and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2004 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper sharply distinguishes "marketing" encompassed in public diplomacy from the marketing of commercial products, focusing instead on the central roles of constintuencies and adversaries. The authors argue that the antipathy for the U.S. government w as aroused by some U.S. policies of outsourcing some aspects of public diplomacy.

Download or read book U S Public Diplomacy written by Jess T. Ford and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. government has spent at least $10 billion on communication efforts designed to advance the strategic interests of the U.S. However, foreign public opinion polling data shows that negative views towards the U.S. persist despite the collective efforts to counteract them by the State Dept., Broadcasting Board of Governors, U.S. Agency for International Development, Dept. of Defense, and other U.S. government agencies. Based on the significant role U.S. strategic communication and public diplomacy efforts can play in promoting U.S. national security objectives, such as countering ideological support for violent extremism, they are being highlighted as an urgent issue for the new admin. and Congress.

Download or read book Isolate Or Engage written by Geoffrey Wiseman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reasserting America in the 1970s written by Hallvard Notaker and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of burgeoning scholarly interest. On the one hand, scholars are investigating the many ways in which the 1970s constituted a profound era of transition in the international order. The American defeat in Vietnam, the breakdown of the Bretton Woods exchange system and a string of domestic setbacks including Watergate, Three-Mile Island and reversals during the Carter years all contributed to a grand reappraisal of the power and prestige of the United States in the world. In addition, the rise of new global competitors such as Germany and Japan, the pursuit of détente with the Soviet Union and the emergence of new private sources of global power contributed to uncertainty.

Download or read book Empire of Ideas written by Justin Hart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the period from 1936 to 1953, Empire of Ideas reveals how and why image first became a component of foreign policy, prompting policymakers to embrace such techniques as propaganda, educational exchanges, cultural exhibits, overseas libraries, and domestic public relations. Drawing upon exhaustive research in official government records and the private papers of top officials in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, including newly declassified material, Justin Hart takes the reader back to the dawn of what Time-Life publisher Henry Luce would famously call the "American century," when U.S. policymakers first began to think of the nation's image as a foreign policy issue. Beginning with the Buenos Aires Conference in 1936--which grew out of FDR's Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America--Hart traces the dramatic growth of public diplomacy in the war years and beyond. The book describes how the State Department established the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Public and Cultural Affairs in 1944, with Archibald MacLeish--the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Librarian of Congress--the first to fill the post. Hart shows that the ideas of MacLeish became central to the evolution of public diplomacy, and his influence would be felt long after his tenure in government service ended. The book examines a wide variety of propaganda programs, including the Voice of America, and concludes with the creation of the United States Information Agency in 1953, bringing an end to the first phase of U. S. public diplomacy. Empire of Ideas remains highly relevant today, when U. S. officials have launched full-scale propaganda to combat negative perceptions in the Arab world and elsewhere. Hart's study illuminates the similar efforts of a previous generation of policymakers, explaining why our ability to shape our image is, in the end, quite limited.

Download or read book Through a Screen Darkly written by Martha Bayles and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why it is a mistake to let commercial entertainment serve as America's de facto ambassador to the world

Download or read book Trials of Engagement written by Ali Fisher and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade public diplomacy has become one of the most important concepts in the development and implementation of foreign policy. Trials of Engagement: The Future of US Public Diplomacy, with contributors from leading scholars in disciplines from international relations to communications, considers the challenges for this ‘new’ public diplomacy, especially as it is pursued by the US Government. It highlights the challenges of aligning policy and projection, overcoming bureaucratic tensions, and the language used by public diplomats. Most importantly, the volume illustrates that the issues for public diplomacy are more than those of a producer seeking to win the hearts and minds of passive ‘audiences’. Trials of Engagement portrays public diplomacy as an increasingly public project. To overcome the trials of engagement, public diplomacy must provide more than a rhetorical nod to a “two-way” process. Ultimately, a collaborative public diplomacy must be built on a broad understanding of those involved, the recognition of stakeholders as peers, and effective interaction with networks made up of traditional and new interlocutors.

Download or read book Culture and Propaganda written by Sarah Ellen Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century governments came to increasingly appreciate the value of soft power to help them achieve their foreign policy ambitions. Covering the crucial period between 1936 and 1953, this book examines the U.S. government’s adoption of diplomatic programs that were designed to persuade, inform, and attract global public opinion in support of American national interests. Cultural diplomacy and international information were deeply controversial to an American public that been bombarded with propaganda during the First World War. This book explains how new notions of propaganda as reciprocal exchange, cultural engagement, and enlightening information paved the way for innovations in U.S. diplomatic practice. Through a comparative analysis of the State Department’s Division of Cultural Relations, the government radio station Voice of America, and the multilateral cultural, educational and scientific diplomacy of Unesco, and drawing extensively on U.S. foreign policy archives, this book shows how America’s liberal traditions were reconciled with the task of influencing and attracting publics abroad.