WHEN US HISTORIANS BEGIN TO TALK about empire, it usually registers the declining
fortunes of others. The term's use among historians in reference to the United States has …

The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy, co-edited by two
leading scholars in the international relations subfield of public diplomacy, includes 16 more …

After Empires describes how the end of colonial empires and the changes in international
politics and economies after decolonization affected the European integration process. Until …

Beginning with an analysis of the debate on the usefulness of the concepts of
'Americanization'and 'Westernization', this essay reviews the recent research on the …

Covering the period from 1936 to 1953, Empire of Ideas reveals how and why image first
became a component of foreign policy, prompting policymakers to embrace such techniques …

A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the
second half of the twentieth century What happened in the years following World War II to …

It was 1951 and Rozella Switzer, postmistress of McPherson, Kansas, a prosperous,
conservative, nearly all white oil town of 9,000 people on the eastern edge of the wheat belt …

This article examines the importance of exchange programs as channels of political
influence and the value that can be gained from examining their impact via various …

This book offers the first account of the foundation, organisation and activities of the NATO
Information Service (NATIS) during the Cold War. During the Cold War, NATIS was pivotal in …

This study considers the history of the first twenty-five years of the Swedish Institute for
Cultural Exchange with Foreign Countries, a semi-official organisation established in 1945 …