HOW TO TRY TO MASK COLONIALISM AND FAIL ANYWAY: AMERICAN PROPAGANDA IN NON-COMMUNIST ASIA DURING THE EARLY COLD WAR

This paper examines Free World articles covering anticommunism, modernization, decolonization, intra-regionalism, US foreign affairs, US foreign aid, and neocolonialism because the task of popularizing specific iterations of these ideas illustrated the implementation of the ideas formulated in NSC 48/5. Moreover, NSC 48/5 called non-communist Asia the location of “the most immediate threats to American National Security.” My paper seeks to answer the question of how American propaganda in Asia, seen through a case study of Free World, tried to accomplish this popularization objective. I argue that the United States Information Agency (USIA) masked America’s neocolonialist intentions and activities in East and Southeast Asia through a rhetoric of anticommunism, intra-regionalism, and modernization.

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Temple University. Libraries

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Sykes, Ian

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Goedde, Petra, 1964-
• Roney, Jessica C. (Jessica Choppin), 1978-

Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember

• Roney, Jessica C. (Jessica Choppin), 1978-

• History
• American history
• Southeast Asian studies
• America
• Cold War
• Free world
• Non communist Asia
• Propaganda
• Southeast Asia

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/3628

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oai:scholarshare.temple.edu:20.500.12613/3628