Reasserting America in the 1970s: U.S. Public Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of America’s Image Abroad (Key Studies in Diplomacy) - Hardcover
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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 and Japan, the pursuit of détente with the Soviet Union, and the emergence of new private sources of global power also contributed to uncertainty. At the same time, within diplomatic history proper, the study of “public diplomacy” has generated searching reappraisals of many of the field’s certitudes. This scholarship has now begun to move into a new conceptual maturity with a developing theoretical base underwriting its institutional narratives, borrowing to a great degree from the literature on “Americanization” and the role of American culture abroad in various national and regional settings. Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together these two areas of topical scholarly interest, to study how American public diplomats at home and abroad struggled to maintain American cultural preeminence in a world of shifting challenges to American power.
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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren
Hallvard Notaker is Adjunct Associate Professor and former Research Fellow at the Forum for Contemporary History at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Visiting Fellow at Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University, USA. A former journalist and producer with Norway's largest broadcasting corporation, NRK, he received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Oslo in 2008, on the subject of American and British influences on Norwegian political campaigning in the 1980s. In 2012 he published a monograph on the history of the Norwegian Conservative Party (1975-2005), and he has recently received an independent commission to write a monograph on the Norwegian Labor Party and the terrorist attacks of 22 July 2011.
Giles Scott-Smith is Senior Researcher with the Roosevelt Study Center and holds the Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Transatlantic Relations since WWII at Leiden University, the Netherlands. In 2012 he was appointed Chair of the Transatlantic Studies Association, and he is currently one of the editors for the Key Studies in Diplomacy book series of Bloomsbury Press. His research interests cover the role of non-state actors and public diplomacy in the maintenance of inter-state (particularly transatlantic) relations. His major publications include Western Anti-Communism and the Interdoc Network: Cold War Internationale (2012), Networks of Empire: The U.S. State Department's Foreign Leader Program in the Netherlands, France, and Britain 1950-70 (2008), and The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and Post-war American Hegemony (2002).
David J. Snyder is Senior Instructor of History and Faculty Principal of the Carolina International House at the University of South Carolina, USA. His work has appeared in Diplomatic History, the Journal of Cold War Studies, and other anthologies. A former Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands, in 2015 he was fellow-in-residence at the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
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