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 and…mehr
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 and Japan, the pursuit of détente with the Soviet Union and the emergence of new private sources of global power contributed to uncertainty.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Hallvard Notaker is Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway Giles Scott-Smith holds the Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Transatlantic Relations since WWII at Leiden University, the Netherlands David J. Snyder is Senior Instructor of History and Faculty Principal of the Carolina International House at the University of South Carolina, USA
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: Reasserting America in the 1970s Hallvard Notaker, Giles Scott Smith, David J. Snyder 2. Historical setting: the age of fear, uncertainty and doubt Thomas W. Zeiler Part I: A new public diplomacy for a new America 3. The Devil at the crossroads: USIA and American public diplomacy in the 1970s Nicholas J. Cull 4. The Sister City network in the 1970s: American municipal internationalism and public diplomacy in a decade of change Brian C. Etheridge 5. The exposure of CIA sponsorship of Radio Free Europe: the 'Crusade for Freedom', American exceptionalism and the foreign domestic nexus of public diplomacy Kenneth Osgood 6. USIA responds to the women's movement, 1960 75 Laura A. Belmonte 7. 'The low key mulatto coverage': race, civil rights and American public diplomacy, 1965 76 Michael L. Krenn 8. Paintbrush politics: the collapse of American arts diplomacy, 1968 72 Claire Bower 9. Selling space capsules, Moon rocks and America: spaceflight in U.S. public diplomacy, 1961 79 Teasel Muir Harmony Part II: The world responds to a reassertive America 10. America's public diplomacy in France and Italy during the years of Eurocommunism Alessandro Brogi 11. Selling America between Sharpeville and Soweto: the USIA in South Africa, 1960 76 John C. Stoner 12. Selling the American West on the frontier of the Cold War: the US Army's German American Volksfest in West Berlin, 1965 81 Benjamin P. Greene 13. Unquiet Americans: the Church Committee, the CIA and the intelligence dimension of US public diplomacy in the 1970s Paul M. McGarr 14. Time to heal the wounds: America's bicentennial and U.S. Swedish normalisation in 1976 M. Todd Bennett 15. 'Something to boast about': Western enthusiasm for Carter's human rights diplomacy Barbara Keys 16. To arms for the Western Alliance: the Committee on the Present Danger, defense spending and the perception of American power abroad, 1973 80 John M. Rosenberg 17. Afterword: selling America in the shadow of Vietnam Robert J. McMahon Index
1. Introduction: Reasserting America in the 1970s Hallvard Notaker, Giles Scott Smith, David J. Snyder 2. Historical setting: the age of fear, uncertainty and doubt Thomas W. Zeiler Part I: A new public diplomacy for a new America 3. The Devil at the crossroads: USIA and American public diplomacy in the 1970s Nicholas J. Cull 4. The Sister City network in the 1970s: American municipal internationalism and public diplomacy in a decade of change Brian C. Etheridge 5. The exposure of CIA sponsorship of Radio Free Europe: the 'Crusade for Freedom', American exceptionalism and the foreign domestic nexus of public diplomacy Kenneth Osgood 6. USIA responds to the women's movement, 1960 75 Laura A. Belmonte 7. 'The low key mulatto coverage': race, civil rights and American public diplomacy, 1965 76 Michael L. Krenn 8. Paintbrush politics: the collapse of American arts diplomacy, 1968 72 Claire Bower 9. Selling space capsules, Moon rocks and America: spaceflight in U.S. public diplomacy, 1961 79 Teasel Muir Harmony Part II: The world responds to a reassertive America 10. America's public diplomacy in France and Italy during the years of Eurocommunism Alessandro Brogi 11. Selling America between Sharpeville and Soweto: the USIA in South Africa, 1960 76 John C. Stoner 12. Selling the American West on the frontier of the Cold War: the US Army's German American Volksfest in West Berlin, 1965 81 Benjamin P. Greene 13. Unquiet Americans: the Church Committee, the CIA and the intelligence dimension of US public diplomacy in the 1970s Paul M. McGarr 14. Time to heal the wounds: America's bicentennial and U.S. Swedish normalisation in 1976 M. Todd Bennett 15. 'Something to boast about': Western enthusiasm for Carter's human rights diplomacy Barbara Keys 16. To arms for the Western Alliance: the Committee on the Present Danger, defense spending and the perception of American power abroad, 1973 80 John M. Rosenberg 17. Afterword: selling America in the shadow of Vietnam Robert J. McMahon Index
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