Economic Diplomacy, Alliance Politics, and the Element of Culture in the Cold War

Book reviewed:
Shu Guang Zhang. Economic Cold War: America's Economic Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance.     

美国文化外交及其在波兰的运用

文化外交,在国际关系中作用越来越重要。冷战中美国对苏联东欧的文化外交,即美国政府对苏联东欧人民的以传播美国文化为核心内容的外交,是美国对苏东“双轨政策”中的重要一轨,也是美国对苏东和平演变战略的一个重要方面。本文以美国对波兰的文化外交为窗口,对美国文化外交的实质、策略、特点进行细致的考察和分析。     

The History and Historiography of American Diplomacy: Principles, Traditions and Values

The Council on Foreign Relations in New York is known throughout the world both as a leading centre for the study of international affairs and as having an influential voice in current debates on the future global role of the United States. Since the First World War the Council has promoted these goals through organizing working groups, sponsoring specialized monographs, and publishing a number of journals and yearbooks. The Council has now sponsored the publication of a multivolume encyclopaedic dictionary of American foreign relations. Michael Dunne's review of these four volumes concentrates on the broad themes which run through the many hundreds of essays, and asks whether the study of the American diplomatic past can help us to understand the special features of the course and conduct of US foreign relations.