The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency [electronic resource] : American Public Diplomacy, 1989–2001 /
Cull, Nicholas J.author.
Using newly declassified archives and interviews with practitioners, Nicholas J. Cull has pieced together the story of the final decade in the life of the United States Information Agency, revealing the decisions and actions that brought the United States' apparatus for public diplomacy into disarray.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Abbreviations Used in Text; Prologue Audit of an Empire: The USIA and American Public Diplomacy in 1988; One Beyond the Cold War: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush; 1. Public Diplomacy in a New Era: Managing Change in Eastern Europe and beyond; 2. International Broadcasting: China and Cuba; 3. "The Beef over the Chief:" The Trials of Bruce Gelb; 4. "The Perfect War:" Desert Shield and Desert Storm; 5. The Calm in the Eye of the Hurricane: Henry Catto's USIA; Two Downsizing: Bill Clinton's First Term
1. Ideas, Agendas, and an Open-Plan Office: The Return of Joe Duffey2. For Peace and Democracy and the Right Pictures on TV: Supporting Clinton's First-Term Foreign Policy; 3. "From Monologue to Dialogue:" Reshaping US International Broadcasting; 4. A Nightmare on Helms Street: The Threat from Capitol Hill; 5. Crisis Tool: Bosnia, Disinformation, and Other Challenges; Three End Games: Bill Clinton's Second Term; 1. Into the Cuisinart: Consolidation and PDD 68; 2. Wagging Dogs and Millennium Bugs: Supporting Clinton's Second-Term Foreign Policy
3. "A Strong, Unique Voice:" International Broadcasting, China, Africa, and Monica4. Kosovo: The Last Campaign; 5. "No Independent Thought Unpunished:" American Public Diplomacy after the USIA; Conclusion The Tragedy of American Public Diplomacy; Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Using newly declassified archives and interviews with practitioners, Nicholas J. Cull has pieced together the story of the final decade in the life of the United States Information Agency, revealing the decisions and actions that brought the United States' apparatus for public diplomacy into disarray.
United States Information Agency
Europe—Politics and government.
International relations.
Diplomacy.
Political science.
European Politics.
International Relations.
Diplomacy.
Political Science.