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This study takes a radical new approach to the study of propaganda and foreign policy. It moves beyond previous state-dominated, 'top-down' studies by exploring the engagement with and mobilization of American society and culture in the Cold War. Redefining the relationship between the State and private groups in American Foreign Relations, this new book examines the origins of public diplomacy in the early cold war period, challenging previous historiography, which has seen relationships between the Private groups and the State as being dictated by the latter. This collection continually questions this assumption, exploring the extent to which private groups were able to maintain their own independence and autonomy within the State-private network. It is strongly supported by a series of valuable new case studies, which analyze relationships between the state and women's groups, religious groups, labour, internationalist groups, intellectuals, media and students, in which the contributors explore the construction of a State-private network.
This collection also explores the construction of a State-private network by the US government and private groups not only as a practical method of communication and dissemination of information or propaganda, but also as an ideological construction, drawing upon specifically American ideologies of freedom and volunteerism. The case studies further explore the power-relationship between the State and private groups, assessing the extent to which the State was in control of the relationship, and the extent to which private organizations exerted their independence. This is an excellent resource for all students and scholars of the Cold War and intelligence, international relations and political history.
This study takes a radical new approach to the study of propaganda and foreign policy. It moves beyond previous state-dominated, 'top-down' studies by exploring the engagement with and mobilization of American society and culture in the Cold War. Redefining the relationship between the State and private groups in American Foreign Relations, this new book examines the origins of public diplomacy in the early cold war period, challenging previous historiography, which has seen relationships between the Private groups and the State as being dictated by the latter. This collection continually questions this assumption, exploring the extent to which private groups were able to maintain their own independence and autonomy within the State-private network. It is strongly supported by a series of valuable new case studies, which analyze relationships between the state and women's groups, religious groups, labour, internationalist groups, intellectuals, media and students, in which the contributors explore the construction of a State-private network.
This collection also explores the construction of a State-private network by the US government and private groups not only as a practical method of communication and dissemination of information or propaganda, but also as an ideological construction, drawing upon specifically American ideologies of freedom and volunteerism. The case studies further explore the power-relationship between the State and private groups, assessing the extent to which the State was in control of the relationship, and the extent to which private organizations exerted their independence. This is an excellent resource for all students and scholars of the Cold War and intelligence, international relations and political history.
Introduction: Negotiating FreedomChapter 1. Conceptualising the State-Private Network Chapter 2. Clark Eichelberger and the Negotiation of Internationalism Chapter 3. The Importance of being (in) Earnest Chapter 4. Voluntary Associations Chapter 5. State-Private Network in the Early Cold War From Cooperation to Covert Actions: The United States Government and Students 1940-52 Chapter 6. Building a Community around the Pax Americana: The US Government and Exchange Programmes in the 1950s, Giles Scott-Smith Chapter 7. The Finest Labor Network in Europe’: American Labour and the Cold War Chapter 8. In Search of a Clear and overarching American Policy: The Reporter magazine (1949-1968) and The Cold War Chapter 9. The role of Interpretation, Negotiation and Compromise in the State-Private Network and British American Studies Chapter 10. Ambassadors of the Screen: Film and the State-Private Network in Cold War America Religious Nonprofit Organizations, the Cold War State and Resurgent Evangelicalism, 1845-1990, Chapter 11. Permanent Revolution’? The New York Intellectuals the CIA and the Cultural Cold War Chapter 12. Public Diplomacy and the Private Sector: The United States Information Agency, it’s Predecessors and the Private Sector.
Dept of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham, UK Department of History, University of Sheffield, UK
'The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe is highly recommended for
Cold War
scholars. Most of the contributors offer fresh insights into the
nature of what is often
now called the “state-private networks” operating on various levels
during the Cold
War. Most of the essays are tightly argued, using primary sources
culled from American and European archives. The contributors are
rightly unwilling to take official claims of infuence at face
value. Thankfully, they eschew the esoteric jargon that all too
frequently bedevils cultural studies.''This is an excellent, and an
excellently conceived and edited, essay collection.' - Cambridge
Journal
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