US Public Diplomacy and Democratization in Spain
US Public Diplomacy and Democratization in Spain

Author: Francisco Rodriguez-Jimenez

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1137461454

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When the post-war relationship between Spain and America began, Hitler's old ally was an unlikely candidate for US influence. The Cold War changed all this. Soon there were US bases on Spanish territory and a political conjuring trick was under way. This volume examines the public diplomacy strategies that the US government employed to accomplish an almost impossible mission: to keep a warm relationship with a tyrant without drifting apart from his opponents, and to somehow pave the way for a transition to democracy. The book's focus on the perspective of soft power breaks new ground in understanding US-Spanish relations. In so doing, it offers valuable lessons for understanding how public diplomacy has functioned in the past and can function today and tomorrow in transitions to democracy.

US Public Diplomacy and Democratization in Spain
US Public Diplomacy and Democratization in Spain

Author: Francisco Javier Rodriguez Jimenez

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 9781349579976

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When the post-war relationship between Spain and America began, Hitler's old ally was an unlikely candidate for US influence. The Cold War changed all this. Soon there were US bases on Spanish territory and a political conjuring trick was under way. This volume examines the public diplomacy strategies that the US government employed to accomplish an almost impossible mission: to keep a warm relationship with a tyrant without drifting apart from his opponents, and to somehow pave the way for a transition to democracy. The book's focus on the perspective of soft power breaks new ground in understanding US-Spanish relations. In so doing, it offers valuable lessons for understanding how public diplomacy has functioned in the past and can function today and tomorrow in transitions to democracy.

Teaching Modernization
Teaching Modernization

Author: Óscar J. Martín García

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2019-12-03

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1789205468

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In the 1960s and 1970s, the educational systems in Spain and Latin America underwent comprehensive and ambitious reforms that took place amid a "revolution of expectations" arising from decolonization, global student protests, and the antagonism between capitalist and communist models of development. Deploying new archival research and innovative perspectives, the contributions to this volume examine the influence of transnational forces during the cultural Cold War. They shed new light on the roles played by the United States, non-state actors, international organizations and theories of modernization and human capital in educational reform efforts in the developing Hispanic world.

Franco Sells Spain to America
Franco Sells Spain to America

Author: N. Rosendorf

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-02-18

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1137372575

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A groundbreaking study of the Franco regime's utilization of Hollywood film production in Spain, American tourism, and sophisticated public relations programs - including the most popular national pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair - in a determined effort to remake the Spanish dictatorship's post-World War II reputation in the US.

Democratic Spain
Democratic Spain

Author: Richard Gillespie

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0415113253

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Spain has emerged from relative political isolation with the transition from authoritarian to democratic government. Its membership of both NATO and the EU have been crucial vehicles for Spain's reappearance on the world stage, though the traditional 'special relationships' with Latin America and the Arab world have also been of great importance. By focusing on the relationship between external relations and domestic policy, Democratic Spain makes an important contribution to the literature on democratization, as well as showing how Spanish foreign policy evolved between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s. While the book is focused on Spain, its revisionist view of democratic transitions is of more general relevance. Democratization is seen as an integral process involving related though not simultaneous changes in domestic policy and external relations. Only with the transformation of its external relations did Spain's new democracy finally become consolidated

US public diplomacy in socialist Yugoslavia, 1950–70
US public diplomacy in socialist Yugoslavia, 1950–70

Author: Carla Konta

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2020-04-22

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1526140772

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A fascinating historical account of how and why the U.S. cultural penetration in Yugoslavia became a key feature for the attainment of Washington’s short, middle and long-term policy goals there.