TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sussman,Gerald
TI  - Branding democracy: U.S. regime change in post-Soviet Eastern Europe 
T2  - Frontiers in political communication
SN  - 9781433105319
U1  - 320.947 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Regime change
KW  - Propaganda, American
KW  - Communication in politics
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1989-
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ch. 1. The regime of propaganda -- 
Ch. 2. The "democracy" brand of empire: historical contexts --  
Ch. 3. The infrastructure and instruments of democracy promotion -- 
Ch. 4. Democracy promotion in Central and Eastern Europe -- 
Ch. 5. Propaganda in liberal democracies
N2  - Branding Democracy: U.S. Regime Change in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe is a study of the uses of systemic propaganda in U.S. foreign policy. Moving beyond traditional understandings of propaganda, Branding Democracy analyzes the expanding and ubiquitous uses of domestic public persuasion under a neoliberal regime and an informational mode of development and its migration to the arena of foreign policy. A highly mobile and flexible corporate-dominated new informational economy is the foundation of intensified Western marketing and promotional culture across spatial and temporal divides, enabling transnational interests to integrate territories previously beyond their reach. U.S. "democracy promotion" and interventions in the Eastern European "color revolutions" in the early twenty-first century serve as studies of neoliberal state interests in action. Branding Democracy will be of interest to students of U.S. and European politics, political economy, foreign policy, political communication, American studies, and culture studies
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