Screen LibraryReasserting America in the 1970s : U.S. public diplomacy and the rebuilding of America's image abroad /
Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of burgeoning scholarly interest. On the one hand, scholars are investigating the many ways in which the 1970s constituted a profound era of transition in the international order. The American defeat in Vietnam, the breakdown of the Bretton...
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Manchester University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Manchester : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Key studies in diplomacy
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Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of burgeoning scholarly interest. On the one hand, scholars are investigating the many ways in which the 1970s constituted a profound era of transition in the international order. The American defeat in Vietnam, the breakdown of the Bretton Woods exchange system and a string of domestic setbacks including Watergate, Three-Mile Island and reversals during the Carter years all contributed to a grand reappraisal of the power and prestige of the United States in the world. In addition, the rise of new global competitors such as Germany a |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 287 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781784993306 1784993301 9781784993313 178499331X |
| Index Number: | E840 |
| CLC: | D871.29 |
| Call Number: | D871.29/R288 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Reasserting America in the 1970s / Hallvard Notaker, Giles Scott-Smith, and David J. Snyder -- Historical setting: the age of fear, uncertainty, and doubt / Thomas W. Zeiler -- Part One: A New Public Diplomacy for a New America. The devil at the crossroads: USIA and American public diplomacy in the 1970s / Nicholas J. Cull -- The sister-city network in the 1970s: American municipal internationalism and public diplomacy in a decade of change / Brian C. Etheridge -- The exposure of CIA sponsorship of Radio Free Europe: the "crusade for freedom," American exceptionalism, and the f |