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Title Trials of engagement : the future of US public diplomacy / edited by Ali Fisher and Scott Lucas
Published Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 309 pages) : illustrations
Series Diplomatic studies ; v. 6
Diplomatic studies ; v. 6.
Contents Introduction -- Public diplomacy on trial? / Philip M. Taylor -- Rebuilding public diplomacy : the case of Israel / Eytan Gilboa and Nachman Shai -- Advisor non grata : the duelling roles of U.S. public diplomacy / John Robert Kelley -- Let's make this happen! : the tension of the unipolar in US public diplomacy / Scott Lucas -- The dots above the detail : the myopia of meta-narrative in George W. Bush's declarative "war of ideas" / David Ryan -- Soft power, US public diplomacy and global risk / Giles Scott-Smith -- Karen Hughes and the Brezhnev syndrome : the trial of public diplomacy as domestic performance / Nicholas J. Cull -- Public diplomacy in the Middle East : dynamics of success and failure / Lina Khatib -- The longer term impact of US public diplomacy in the Americas during WWII / Elizabeth Fox -- Competing narratives : US public diplomacy and the problematic case of Latin America / Bevan Sewell -- The seven paradoxes of public diplomacy / Daryl Copeland -- The public diplomacy challenge of strategic stakeholder engagement / R.S. Zaharna -- Skills of the public diplomat : language, narrative, and allegiance / Biljana Scott -- Public diplomacy : courting publics for short-term advantage or partnering public for lasting peace and sustainable properity? / Naren Chitty -- Looking at the man in the mirror : understanding of power and influence in public diplomacy / Ali Fisher -- Conclusion
Summary In the last decade public diplomacy has become one of the most important concepts in the development and implementation of foreign policy. Trials of Engagement: The Future of US Public Diplomacy, with contributors from leading scholars in disciplines from international relations to communications, considers the challenges for this 'new' public diplomacy, especially as it is pursued by the US Government. It highlights the challenges of aligning policy and projection, overcoming bureaucratic tensions, and the language used by public diplomats. Most importantly, the volume illustrates that the is
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
International relations
Law, Politics & Government.
International Relations.
SUBJECT United States -- Relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140497
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Fisher, Ali.
Lucas, Scott.
LC no. 2010041928
ISBN 9789047441755
9047441753
1283119447
9781283119443
9786613119445
661311944X