The Diplomacy of Ideas: U.S. Foreign Policy and Cultural Relations, 1938–1950

by Frank A. Ninkovich

• ISBN13: 9780521232418
• ISBN10: 0521232414
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1981-02-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

An interpretive history of the uses of cultural relations in U.S. foreign policy. Analyzes the links between fundamental foreign policy outlooks and American institutional structures. Shows how the U.S. made the transition from foreign policy passivity in the 1930s to global activism in the 1950s.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Philanthropic origins of cultural policy

2. Wartime departures from tradition

3. Planning the liberal ecumene

4. The failure of internationalism

5. The politics of institutionalization

6. The transformation of cultural internationalism

Conclusion: freedom, ideology, and culture

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.