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CFP: “Selling America in an Age of Uncertainty…”
By admin | gennaio 12, 2013
“Selling America in an Age of Uncertainty: U.S. Public Diplomacy in the New International Order, 1965-1980”
a call for papers
November 1-2, 2013
Nobel Institute - Oslo, Norway
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the 1970s constituted a profound era of transition in international affairs. The American defeat in Vietnam, the breakdown of the Bretton Woods exchange system, and a string of setbacks including Watergate, Three-Mile Island, and reversals during the Carter years all contributed to a grand reappraisal of the place of the United States within the international order. In addition, the rise of new global competitors, the pursuit of détente with the Soviet Union, and the emergence of new private sources of global power also contributed to uncertainty about the role of American power in the world. Against this backdrop of mounting domestic and international crises, America’s cultural hegemony suffered prolonged disparagement as American-style consumerism wilted in the face of concerns over the environment, over the spiritual costs of mass consumption, and over American market-oriented approaches to global justice. The emancipatory potential of American culture, so confidently asserted at mid-century, appeared tentative in the new post-1968 world.
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