American Diplomacy S Public Dimension

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.

The chasm dividing the scholarly from the practitioner's view of foreign policy is brilliantly dissected in the chapter on Academia. Detailed case studies look at the negotiations over the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II): Nicaragua after the fall of Somoza, apartheid in South Africa, and the civil war in Angola.

Huijgh’s comprehensive analysis of the domestic dimension of public diplomacy includes five case studies on North America, Europa and the Asia-Pacific. The author views public diplomacy’s international and domestic dimensions as stepping stones on a continuum of public participation.

This volume, the second in the series of Herbert Wilson Griffin Seminars in International Affairs, provides a broad look, supported by a wealth of detail, at the extent to which the communications revolution is affecting our lives and relations among sovereign states. The world in the information age is changing rapidly, posing new challenges with respect both to the issues we confront and the ways in which we must deal with them. One constant theme that runs throughout the discussion is the need to adapt our thinking and behavior to the demands and opportunities of this changing environment. This is the challenge for American policies and for American diplomacy in the information age. Co-published with the Dacor Bacon House Foundation.

Presents an A-to-Z reference guide that examines United States foreign policy.

This book explores the recent changes in U.S. foreign policy, examines the roles that the six primary actors (the President, the Congress, the bureaucracy, non-governmental organizations, the media and the public) play in policy decisions, and assesses the potential for improvement within this system.

This volume discusses how diplomacy’s contribution to the effectiveness of foreign policy has been undervalued in the United States by governments, the foreign policy community, and academics. Chapters raise awareness of the importance of American diplomacy, what it can and can’t achieve, and how it may be strengthened in the interests of international peace and security.

This book is a much-needed update on our understanding of public diplomacy. With influential academic voices exploring policy implications for tomorrow, this collection of essays is also forward-looking by examining unfolding trends in public diplomacy strategies and practices.