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John Hughes examines lessons learned from the practice of public diplomacyespecially international broadcastingin 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 coexistsuch as Turkeycould play a significant role in helping thwart Islamist extremism.

Table of Contents
  • Foreword by Fouad Ajami and Charles Hill
  • Part I: The Rise and Fall of USIA
  • Part II: Indonesia: Where Democracy and Islam Coexist
  • Part III: Indonesia: An Example for Islam?
  • Part 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

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      Publisher: Hoover Institution Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: 30/07/2010
      ISBN13: 9780817911645, 978-0817911645
      ISBN10: 0817911642
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      John Hughes examines lessons learned from the practice of public diplomacyespecially international broadcastingin 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 coexistsuch as Turkeycould play a significant role in helping thwart Islamist extremism.

      Table of Contents
      • Foreword by Fouad Ajami and Charles Hill
      • Part I: The Rise and Fall of USIA
      • Part II: Indonesia: Where Democracy and Islam Coexist
      • Part III: Indonesia: An Example for Islam?
      • Part 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

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