Machineries of Persuasion

Machineries of Persuasion
Author :
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 222
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783110560510
ISBN-13 : 3110560518
Rating : 4/5 (518 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Machineries of Persuasion by : Óscar J. Martín García

Download or read book Machineries of Persuasion written by Óscar J. Martín García and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, public diplomacy has become a central area of research within Cold War studies. Yet, this field has been dominated by studies of the United States' soft power practices. However, the so-called 'cultural dimension' of the Cold war was a much more multifaceted phenomenon. Little attention has been paid to European actors' efforts to safeguard a wide range of strategic and political interests by seducing foreign publics. This book includes a series of works which examine the soft power techniques used by various European players to create a climate of public opinion overseas which favored their interests in the Cold war context. This is a relevant book for three reasons. First, it contains a wide variety of case studies, including Western and Eastern, democratic and authoritarian, and core and peripheral European countries. Second, it pays attention to little studied instruments of public diplomacy such as song contests, sport events, tourism and international solidarity campaigns. Third, it not only concentrates on public diplomacy programs deployed by governments, but also on the role played by some non-official actors in the cultural Cold War in Europe


Machineries of Persuasion Related Books

Divided, But Not Disconnected
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Tobias Hochscherf
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

GET EBOOK

The Allied agreement after the Second World War did not only partition Germany, it divided the nation along the fault-lines of a new bipolar world order. This i
Machineries of Persuasion
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Óscar J. Martín García
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-01 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

GET EBOOK

Over the last two decades, public diplomacy has become a central area of research within Cold War studies. Yet, this field has been dominated by studies of the
Tailoring Truth
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Jon Berndt Olsen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

GET EBOOK

By looking at state-sponsored memory projects, such as memorials, commemorations, and historical museums, this book reveals that the East German communist regim
Beyond Boycotts
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Philippe Vonnard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-18 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

GET EBOOK

Sport during Cold War has recently begun to be studied in more depth. Some scholars have edited a book about the US and Soviet sport diplomacy and show ow the g
Culture from the Slums
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: Jeff Hayton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-10 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

Culture from the Slums explores the history of punk rock in East and West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. These decades witnessed an explosion of alternativ