This course examines the history, theories, and methodologies of public diplomacy and political warfare through the 20th Century, and especially during the Cold War, with an eye toward applying lessons to the development of 21st Century public diplomacy and political warfare strategies. The objective of the course is to help prepare the student to integrate public diplomacy and political warfare with other tools - traditional diplomacy, foreign aid, intelligence collection and covert operations, and military and economic foreign policy - and to condition the student to approach the issue with confidence.
Required Books
- Civil Democratic Islam: Partners, Resources, Strategies, Cheryl Benard (pdf download)
- Propaganda, Edward Bernays
- Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the U.S. Information Agency, Wilson P. Dizard, Jr.
- Freedom Betrayed: How America Led a Global Democratic Revolution, Won the Cold War, and Walked Away, Michael Ledeen
- Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook, Edward Luttwak
- Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics, Joseph S. Nye
- The Art of Political Warfare, John J. Pitney, Jr.
- On Political War, Paul A. Smith, (out of print)
Counterinsurgency Field Manual FM 3-24 (2006)
- Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War, J. Michael Waller (2007)
- Strategic Influence: Public Diplomacy, Counterpropaganda and Political Warfare, J. Michael Waller, ed. (available September 2007)
- The Public Diplomacy Reader, J. Michael Waller, ed. (2007)
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