The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency by Nicholas J Cull

The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency by Nicholas J Cull

Using newly declassified archives and interviews with practitioners, Nicholas J. Cull has pieced together the story of the final decade in the life of the United States Information Agency, revealing the decisions and actions that brought the United States' apparatus for public diplomacy into disarray.

"In his scholarly and careful but always engaging and readable account of how the end of the Cold War precipitated the fall of the United States Information Agency, Nicholas JCull has not only given an account of the strengths and defects of public diplomacy in the first Bush administration and Clinton's two terms, but has also offered a deeper exploration of the role of government-sponsored information and culture in the modern world. I can think of no better way for citizens and public officials to explore such crucial questions than in Nick Cull's invigorating company."

Benjamin R. Barber, senior research scholar, Graduate Center, City University of New York and author of Jihad vs. McWorld

"In this excellent study about the unraveling of the USIA, Nick Cull once again shows the importance of studying the history of public diplomacy. He is a great storyteller with a keen eye for telling details and individuals' contributions to the shaping of US public diplomacy. He makes a convincing case for independent cultural agencies in the execution of public diplomacy."

Jan Melissen, director of research, Clingendael, Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Netherlands

"Nicholas J. Cull continues to produce authoritative, fascinating, and well-documented works on American public diplomacy in general and the USIA in particular. This book is required reading for any scholar, student, or official interested in the fields of Americanforeign policy, public diplomacy, and international communication."

Eytan Gilboa, director of the School of Communication and the Center for International Communication, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Cull, Nicholas J.: - Nicholas J. Cull is Professor of Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. He is the author of Selling War; The British Propaganda Campaign Against American 'Neutrality' in World War II and the co-editor (with David Culbert and David Welch) of Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Public Diplomacy Council, and President of the International Association for Media and History.

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ISBN 13	9780230340725
ISBN 10	0230340725
Title	The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency
Author	Nicholas J Cull
Series	Palgrave Macmillan Series In Global Public Diplomacy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	2012-09-25
Number of pages	257
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