Networks of Empire: The Us State Department's Foreign Leader Program in the Netherlands, France, and Britain 1950-70

Networks of Empire
	Contents
	Preface
	Abbreviations
	Introduction: Networks of Empire. The Foreign Leader Program in Global Perspective
	Defining Public Diplomacy
	Informal Empire
	The Alms of the Program
	The Challenge of Soviet Public Diplomacy
	The Foreign Leader Program’s Global Scale
	Organisation of the Book
	Part I. History and Apparatus
	1 The History of US Government Exchanges
	Laying the Foundations
	Strategy: Psychological Warfare and the Focus on Elites
	Smith-Mundt and the Campaign of Truth
	64	Ibid., p. 11.
	2 Implementing the Leader Program
	The Administrative Apparatus
	Public-Private Cooperation
	Programming the Grantees
	Part II. The Netherlands in the 1950s
	3 The PvdA and the Transatlantic Anti-Communist Alliance
	The Netherlands after WWII
	The Partij van de Arbeid and the Atlanticist Turn
	Mobilising Domestic Anti-Communism: Evert Vermeer
	A Rising Star: J.M. den Uyl
	Organising Government Propaganda: Joop Landré
	The Threat of Bevanism: Hein Vos
	A Dutch Cold Warrior: Frans Goedhart
	4 The Trade Unions, Socio-Economic Policy and the American Model
	The Trade Unions and the Marshall Plan
	The Worldview of the Dutch Trade Unions
	Searching for ‘Spiritual Factors9: Frans Fuykschot
	Useful Allies: Reint Laan and Pieter Bogaers
	Building Transatlantic Linkages with Dutch Technocrats
	The Transfer of Industrial Skills and Methods
	Engaging the Catholic Minority
	The 1960s and the Shift to Managing Elites
	5 Spreading the Word: Culture and the Media
	Targeting the Dutch Media
	The NATO Leader Program: Cheap but Effective
	Jointly Sponsored Journalists: Teaching the Method
	Journalists as Foreign Leaders
	Securing the Realm of High Culture: Hendrik Reinink
	Libraries: The Push to Mechanise and Standardise
	Literary Transmitters: The FLP and Dutch Writers
	Part III. The Netherlands in the 1960s
	6 Coping with Irritations: The Early 1960s
	Negative Effects: KLM Landing Rights and New Guinea
	Pushing Educational Exchange
	Swaying the Dutch Media
	Going for the Impossible: The Dutch and the MLF
	Free Trade: The Netherlands, the EEC, and Rotterdam
	7 Steering Bilateral Relations in the Vietnam Era
	The US Embassy under Ambassador Tyler 1965-69
	Commanding the ‘Listening Post9: William Tyler
	A Good Team: The US Embassy in The Hague 1965-69
	Connecting the New Generation: The Emphasis on Youth
	The Issues: NATO and Vietnam
	The Issues: Economics and the EEC
	Backing a Political Ally: The WD
	The Arts: Putting the Dutch in the Picture
	The New Politics: D 66
	Part IV. France and Britain
	8 The Foreign Leader Program in France 1950-70
	Finding an Entrance into French Politics
	A Big Impact: Higher Education and American Studies
	Seducing the Media
	Reaching the Third World through Paris
	The 1960s and Gaullism
	Conclusion
	9 The Foreign Leader Program in Britain 1950-70
	The Labour Party and Its Allies in the Early 1950s
	Coping with Anti-Americanism
	‘Suez Must Not Repeat Itself: Maximising Exchanges
	The 1960s: Modernisation, Youth, and Culture
	Conclusion
	Conclusion: The Problems of Evaluation
	The Application of Social Science
	Evaluating the Exchange Apparatus
	A Question of Quality
	The Leader Program in Western Europe
	Appendix I. FLP Grantees from Britain 1950-701
	1950-51
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	Appendix II. FLP Grantees from France 1950-701
	1950
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	Appendix III. FLP Grantees from the Netherlands 1950-70'
	1950
	1951
	1952
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	1955
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	1961
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	1967
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	Appendix IV. List of Interviews
	Dutch FLP Grantees
	US Embassy Personnel
	G AI Personnel
	Appendix V. Archives
	The Netherlands
	Belgium
	France
	Select Bibliography
	Books
	Articles & Book Chapters
	Government Publications
	Unpublished Papers
	Index