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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785041903321

Autore

Richmond Yale

Titolo

Practicing public diplomacy [[electronic resource] ] : a Cold War odyssey / / Yale Richmond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008

ISBN

1-282-62665-5

9786612626654

0-85745-013-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

Explorations in culture and international history series ; ; v. 5

Disciplina

327.73009045

Soggetti

Cold War

Diplomats - United States

Diplomats - United States - History - 20th century

Public relations and politics - United States - History - 20th century

Cultural relations - History - 20th century

United States Foreign relations 1945-1989

United States Relations Communist countries

Communist countries Relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-168) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page-Practicing public diplomacy; Contents; Acronyms; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Ch 1-Doing democracy in Deutschland; Ch 2-Nation building in Laos; Ch 3-Back to the books; Ch 4-A voice to Vietnam; Ch 5-Poland-Russia's window on the west; Ch 6-Viennese vignettes; Ch 7-East European exchanges; Ch 8-Moscow and more; Ch 9-Shafted by Shakespeare; Ch 10-Doing detente at the department; Ch 11-USIA + CU =USICA; Ch 12-Helsinka and Human Rights; Ch 13-Doing democracy at NED; Afterword; Selected bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 U.S. 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 D.C. with the State Department, the Helsinki Commission of the U.S. Congress, and the National Endowment for Democracy. Part history, part memoir, it takes readers into