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Informationen zum Autor Caroline Page was a Desk Officer in the Ministry of Defence in the 1970s. Subsequently she took a PhD at the University of Reading! UK! holding an International Fellowship at Georgetown University! USA!during her PhD studies! before moving to the Foreign Broadcast Information Service in 1984 as an Editor responsible for political information from and on the former Soviet Union. From 1990 to 2014 she was a University Lecturer specialising in foreign policy analysis! with aconcentration on propaganda and public opinion! particularly U.S. official propaganda! the Vietnam War! and European government and public opinion.Michael Daywas educated at Coventry University! UK! gaining his PhD in 2013. He published an article while still a PhD student! and as an independent academic currently writes an International Relations blog for an on-line newspaper. Klappentext This book explores the dimensions of propaganda, in both theory and practice, using specific examples such as the Bolshevik campaigns or the propaganda during the Gulf War to illuminate its possibilities and limitations as a foreign policy tool. Zusammenfassung This book explores the dimensions of propaganda, in both theory and practice, using specific examples such as the Bolshevik campaigns or the propaganda during the Gulf War to illuminate its possibilities and limitations as a foreign policy tool. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Propaganda in Theory 1. Introduction to Propaganda: Conceptions and Misconceptions 2. Sources of Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda in Modern Society: Image-Building and Destruction 3. The Role of Propaganda in Modern Society: Élite Tool and Societal Cement 4. Propaganda in New and Established Regimes: Necessities, Luxuries and Legitimacy 5. Propaganda in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes: Morality versus Utility? 6. Foreign Policy and Propaganda: Potential and Limitations Part 2: The Practice of Propaganda 7. Propaganda from New Regimes: The Bolshevik and Khomeyni Regimes Compared 8. The US in Vietnam and the USSR in Afghanistan: Democratic and Authoritarian Propaganda at War 9. The USSR and Eastern Europe: Propaganda Failure or the Triumph of the West? 10. The Gulf War and Propaganda: Lessons from the Past, Problems for the Future? 11. South Korea and North Korea: Tigers and Dinosaurs? ...
