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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Voice of America"”.
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The Voice of America and the Republican Cold War, 1945 to 1953
Previous studies of Congressional Republicans have focused mostly on the latter's support for the Truman administration's containment policies. This approach overlooks the significance of domestic politics in relation to foreign affairs. My dissertation shows how Republicans used the anti-communist …
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Voice of America And the Civil Rights Movement: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis
… by the United States government broadcaster, the Voice of America to international audiences during the Cold War. It analyzes news articles about the civil rights struggles in America in the 1950's and 1960's. This comparative discourse analysis identifies media frames and answers the question if …
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Exporting America: The U.S. Information Centers and German Reconstruction
<p>This dissertation examines the establishment of United States Information Centers in West Germany immediately after the Second World War, and their role in securing the support of West German elites for American occupation policies, particularly democratic self-government. Located at the …
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Bolshevik voices: radio broadcasting in the Soviet Union, 1917 - 1991
… been given little attention from scholars. Radio offers the power to unite distant people and reinforce the party agenda yet also leaves the door open to unauthorized transmissions. The story of radio must be understood as two sides of the same coin, namely the motivation and purpose of …
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All India Radio: International Broadcasting and the Remaking of the Airwaves after Empire
This dissertation investigates the evolution of All India Radio (AIR) external broadcasts from the colonial inception into an instrument of cultural diplomacy, ideological warfare. The broader argument of the dissertation is that by projecting the foreign policy of independent India, AIR external …
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Sister Madeleva: Lyric Poet
To evaluate the endurance of a contemporary artist is a perilous task. That elusive factor, time, which can dissipate current acclaim into hazy remembrance or catapult obscurity into world renown, must be weighed thoughtfully; else, the critical scales may tilt capriciously. Thus, without the …
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Can Arabs Represent America? The Performativity of U.S-Arab Mediated Public Diplomacy
America, with its Voice of America radio and its short-wave sister stations that pierced through the thick Iron Curtain until it disintegrated in the late 1980s, found itself voiceless in countering the narrative of those who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Using the Cold War communication as …
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U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran: structures, actors, and policy communities
This dissertation is an in depth study of the structures, actors, and policy communities associated with U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran. Since 2006, the U.S. government has spent more than $200 million for its Iran-related public diplomacy via State Department "democracy promotion" programs, …