TY - BOOK ID - 1644024 TI - Inventing Public Diplomacy AU - Dizard, Wilson P. Jr., AU - Brown, Kenneth L AU - Funseth, Robert L PY - 2022 SN - 158826288X 1626370044 9781626370043 9781588262882 PB - Boulder DB - UniCat KW - History of North America KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - United States KW - International relations. Foreign policyanno 1900-1999United States KW - United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. KW - United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-. KW - United States -- Relations. KW - United States Information Agency -- History. KW - Regions & Countries - Americas KW - History & Archaeology KW - United States - General KW - United States Information Agency KW - History. KW - Relations. KW - Foreign relations KW - Agence d'information des Etats-Unis KW - Agencia de Información de los EE. UU. KW - ASV Informācijas dienests KW - Forenede Staters Informationstjeneste KW - Informativna služba Sjedinjenih Američkih Država KW - Informativna služba Sjedinjenih Država Amerike KW - Informat︠s︡iĭne agentstvo SShA KW - Informat︠s︡iĭne ahentstvo SShA KW - Mei-kuo hsin wen tsung shu KW - Servicio Informativo de los EE. UU. KW - Servicio Informativo y Cultural de los Estados Unidos KW - Servicio Informativo y Cultural de los Estados Unidos de América KW - U.S.I.A. KW - USIA KW - U.S. Information Agency KW - United States. KW - US Information Agency KW - Wakālat al-Iʻlām al-Amrīkīyah KW - Yhdysvaltain tiedotustoimisto KW - Agência de Informação dos Estados Unidos KW - Relations KW - International Information and Educational Exchange Program (U.S.) KW - United States Information Service KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1644024 AB - 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. ER -