Isolate or engage: adversarial states, US foreign policy, and public diplomacy

328 Pages·2015·19.564 MB·English

by  Wiseman, Geoffrey

ISOL ATE OR ENGAGE

I S O L AT E O R E N G A G E
Adversarial States, US Foreign Policy,
and Public Diplomacy
Edited by Geoffrey Wiseman
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Isolate or engage : adversarial states, US foreign policy, and public diplomacy / edited
by Geoffrey Wiseman.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8047-9388-9 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-8047-9552-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. United States—Foreign relations—1945–1989—Case studies. 2. United States—
Foreign relations—1989—Case studies. I. Wiseman, Geoffrey, editor.
E744.I693 2015
327.73009’04—dc23 2014044179
ISBN 978-0-8047-9555-5 (electronic)
For Donna, Brady, and Dylan

Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Contributor Biographies xi
Introduction 1
Geoffrey Wiseman
1 Soviet Union/Russia: US Diplomacy with
the Russian “Adversary” 24
Robert D. English
2 China: American Public Diplomacy and US-China Relations,
1949–2012 59
Robert S. Ross
3 North Korea: Engaging a Hermit Adversarial State 85
Scott Snyder
4 Vietnam: American and Vietnamese Public Diplomacy,
1945–2010 110
Mark Philip Bradley and Viet Thanh Nguyen
5 Libya: The United States and the Libyan Jamahiriyya:
From Isolation to Regional Ally, 1969–2011 140
Dirk J. Vandewalle
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6 Iran: Public Diplomacy in a Vacuum 164
Suzanne Maloney
7 Syria: Public Diplomacy in Syria: Overcoming Obstacles 205
William Rugh
8 Cuba: Public Diplomacy as a Battle of Ideas 231
William M. LeoGrande
9 Venezuela: The United States and Venezuela:
Managing a Schizophrenic Relationship 259
Michael Shifter
Conclusion 280
Geoffrey Wiseman
Index 303
Acknowledgments
THIS BOOK IS THE RESULT OF A PROJECT SUPPORTED
by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under the Minerva
Research Initiative. The basic idea motivating the project, which I first
broached in a 2008 conference paper, was that while there had been a sub-
stantial interest in public diplomacy—generated mainly by the September 11,
2001, terrorist attacks and the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—years later
no comparative multicountry study had been written on the role of public
diplomacy with key adversarial states where the US maintains no, or less than
full, diplomatic relations.
The project and this book benefited from the contributions of many indi-
viduals. I wish to acknowledge the contribution to the original project pro-
posal made by Sherine Badawi Walton, USC Center on Public Diplomacy at
the Annenberg School, and Shawn Powers, then a doctoral student working
at the center. At the USC Center for International Studies (CIS), the project
received superb support from Professor Patrick James and also from Erin Bar-
ber, Marisela Schaffer, and Indira Persad. Furthermore, CIS provided supple-
mentary funding support for the project at a critical moment. At the USC
School of International Relations, Robert English, Linda Cole, Karen Tang,
and Ashley Bonanno helped enormously. I also acknowledge the splendid
organizational and editing contributions of Christina Gray as project coor-
dinator, and the assistance of students Landry Doyle, Katherine Hill, and
Anna Phillips. For his research, editing, and advice, I warmly thank Scot
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