Communicating With the World: U.S. Public Diplomacy Overseas (Martin F. Herz Series on United States Diplomacy)

Rating:
Summary: A fine approach from a foreign service officer
Review: "Communicating with the World" is a well-organized primer on public diplomacy, authored by a veteran practitioner. The book radiates the experienced authority of a longtime foreign service officer who remains deeply committed to his mission of communicating with the publics of other countries.

Author Hans N. Tuch takes a conventional approach to the U.S. conduct of public diplomacy in this pre-information age volume, demonstrating the established thinking about this tool of statecraft. In so doing, however, the author appears to isolate public diplomacy from other forms of statecraft like covert action and political warfare. This lack of integration is symptomatic of the profession, but the gap does little to advance the field in an otherwise fine textbook.

Rating:
Summary: A fine approach from a foreign service officer
Review: "Communicating with the World" is a well-organized primer on public diplomacy, authored by a veteran practitioner. The book radiates the experienced authority of a longtime foreign service officer who remains deeply committed to his mission of communicating with the publics of other countries.

Author Hans N. Tuch takes a conventional approach to the U.S. conduct of public diplomacy in this pre-information age volume, demonstrating the established thinking about this tool of statecraft. In so doing, however, the author appears to isolate public diplomacy from other forms of statecraft like covert action and political warfare. This lack of integration is symptomatic of the profession, but the gap does little to advance the field in an otherwise fine textbook.