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John Hughes examines lessons learned from the practice of public diplomacy—especially international broadcasting—in the cold war and tells how the United States could more effectively counter extremism, promote democracy, and improve understanding of itself in the Islamic world. He offers Indonesia as a successful example of the melding of democracy, Islam, and modernity and suggests that this country and other nations where Islam and democracy coexist—such as Turkey—could play a significant role in helping thwart Islamist extremism.
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INDEX
Abshire, David, 8
Afghanistan, xi, xii, 90, 107, 109
Pakistan border, 2
radio broadcasting to, 32, 34, 112, 115
Agency for International Development (AID), 22
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 87
AID. See Agency for International Development
Aidit, Dipa Nusantara, 46–50, 53, 57, 62–64
Al Arabiya, 33
Al Jazeera, 2, 33, 101, 112
Alberts, Bruce, 99
Albright, Madeleine Korbel, 22–23, 80
Alhurra TV, 32–36, 93, 110–12
Allen, Richard, 8
America
Cold War policies, ix, xiii, 3–4, 16–19, 22, 90–91, 101–2
common ground between Islam and, xii–xiv
diplomacy as weapon against terrorism, 2–3, 18
film industry, 4, 20, 48, 99, 104
freedom message of, 1, 7, 25, 30, 91–93, 95, 101, 110, 119–20
Internet use, 3, 26, 30, 113, 119
negative image of, 11, 24–30, 98, 101–2, 105, 119
Pentagon funding international broadcasting, 34, 96–97
post-Cold War policies, 8–12
September 11, 2001 attacks on, ix, xi, 24–31, 90–91
Soviet forgeries/propaganda about, 16
task force recommendations after 9/11, 24–30
troops in Iraq, 86
understanding of Islam, ix, xii, 83, 90, 101, 104, 106, 109. See also State Department; specific organization or person
American Corners, 27
American Exceptionalism, xii, 9
anti-Americanism
America's negative image, 11, 24–30, 98, 101–2, 105, 119
Sukarno's leftism and, xiii–xiv, 24, 45–49, 53–54, 63–65, 85
Voice of America v., xiii, 3, 4–16, 23, 32–34, 110
Al Arabiya news station, 33
Armenia, 86
Asian Studies Center, Claremont I...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- I. The Rise and Fall of USIA
- II. Indonesia: Where Democracy and Islam Coexist
- III. Indonesia: An Example for Islam?
- IV. What We Should Do
- Notes
- About the Author
- About the Hoover Institution's Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order
- Index