Dizard, Wilson P.
WILSON P. DIZARD JR. served from 1951 to 1980 in Washington and overseas in the State Department and USIS, emerging as a recognized expert on international communications. Author of more than sixty scholarly articles and seven other books, most recently Meganet and Digital Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Information Age, he has taught at MIT, Georgetown University (1975–95), and the National War College and was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1983–2001).
Wilson Dizard offers the first comprehensive account of public diplomacy’s evolution within the U.S. foreign policy establishment, ranging from World War II to the present. Public diplomacy–the uncertain art of winning public support abroad for one’s government and its foreign policies–constitutes a critical policy instrument in the face of today’s...