Ian Talbot

Engaging Pakistan

The History of British and American Public Diplomacy in Troubled Times

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Produktbeschreibung

Engaging Pakistan examines the role of British and American Public Diplomacy in Pakistan. It focuses on case studies located in two periods (1955-64 and 2008-12) during which there was both intense public diplomacy activity and increasing public hostility particularly towards the US.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9781032974019
• ISBN-10: 103297401X
• Artikelnr.: 74435380

Autorenporträt

Ian Talbot is Emeritus Professor in the History of Modern South Asia at the University of Southampton (UK), where he was formerly Head of the History Department, Director of the School of Humanities Graduate Research and Founding Director of the Centre for Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies. He is the author of The History of British Diplomacy in Pakistan (Routledge 2021) and co-editor, with Amit Ranjan, of Urban Development and Environmental History in Modern South Asia (2022), also published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Landscapes: The Institutional, Political and Media environment for
British and American Public Diplomacy in Pakistan
2. Across the Airwaves: BBC and Voice of America Broadcasting in Pakistan
3. Telling the Story: Libraries, Librarians Books
4. Passage to Pakistan: Goodwill Visits 1959-62
5. All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps in Pakistan 1961-64
6. The Duke and the Bard: The Cultural Diplomacy of Jazz and Shakespeare in
Ayub's Pakistan
7. Education's Role in British Public Diplomacy in Pakistan: New Labour and
Conservative-Liberal Governments 2001-2015
8. Moving The Needle: Hillary Clinton's Public Diplomacy in Pakistan
Conclusion