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Radio wars: broadcasting during the Cold War
During the Cold War, radio broadcasting played an important role in the ideological confrontation between East and West. As archival documents gathered in this volume reveal, radio broadcasting was among the most pressing concerns of contemporary information agencies. These broadcasts could penetrate the Iron Curtain and directly address the 'enemy'. Radio was equally important in keeping sustained levels of support among the home public and the public of friendly nations. In the early Cold War in particular, listeners in the West had to be persuaded of the need for higher defence spending levels and a policy of containment. Later, even if other media – and in particular television – had become more important, radio continued to be used widely. The chapters gathered here investigate both the institutional history of the radio broadcasting corporations in the East and in the West, and their relationship with other propaganda agencies of the time. They examine the 'off-air' politics of radio broadcasting, from the choice of theme to the selection of speakers, singers and music pieces. The key issue tackled by contributors is the problem of measuring the impact of, and qualifying the success of, information policies and propaganda programmes produced during the Cultural Cold War. This book was originally published as a special issue of Cold War History (volume 13, issue 2 in May 2013).
Propaganda and intelligence in the Cold War: the NATO Information Service
In: Studies in intelligence series
Propaganda and intelligence in the Cold War: the NATO Information Service
In: Studies in intelligence series
"This book offers the first account of the foundation, organisation and activities of the NATO Information Service (NATIS) during the Cold War. During the Cold War, NATIS was pivotal in bringing national delegations together to discuss their security, information and intelligence concerns and, when appropriate or possible, to devise a common response to the 'Communist threat'. At the same time, NATIS liaised with bodies like the Atlantic Institute and the Bilderberg group in the attempt to promote a coordinated western response. The NATO archive material also shows that NATIS carried out its own information and intelligence activities. Propaganda and Intelligence in the Cold War provides the first sustained study of the history of NATIS throughout the Cold War. Examining the role of NATIS as a forum for the exchange of ideas and techniques about how to develop and run propaganda programmes, this book presents a sophisticated understanding of the extent to which national information agencies collaborated. By focusing on the degree of cooperation on cultural and information activities, this analysis of NATIS also contributes to the history of NATO as a political alliance and reminds us that NATO was -- and still is -- primarily a political organisation. This book will be of much interest to students of NATO, Cold War studies, intelligence studies, and IR in general"--
Propaganda and intelligence in the Cold War: the NATO Information Service
In: Studies in intelligence series
"This book offers the first account of the foundation, organisation and activities of the NATO Information Service (NATIS) during the Cold War. During the Cold War, NATIS was pivotal in bringing national delegations together to discuss their security, information and intelligence concerns and, when appropriate or possible, to devise a common response to the 'Communist threat'. At the same time, NATIS liaised with bodies like the Atlantic Institute and the Bilderberg group in the attempt to promote a coordinated western response. The NATO archive material also shows that NATIS carried out its own information and intelligence activities. Propaganda and Intelligence in the Cold War provides the first sustained study of the history of NATIS throughout the Cold War. Examining the role of NATIS as a forum for the exchange of ideas and techniques about how to develop and run propaganda programmes, this book presents a sophisticated understanding of the extent to which national information agencies collaborated. By focusing on the degree of cooperation on cultural and information activities, this analysis of NATIS also contributes to the history of NATO as a political alliance and reminds us that NATO was -- and still is -- primarily a political organisation. This book will be of much interest to students of NATO, Cold War studies, intelligence studies, and IR in general"--
A Forgotten Success: Operation Essential Harvest, 2001
In: The RUSI journal: publication of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, Band 166, Heft 6-7, S. 96-105
ISSN: 1744-0378
Vigilance is the Price of Liberty: The Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe Marks Its 70th Anniversary
In: The RUSI journal: publication of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, Band 166, Heft 1, S. 48-58
ISSN: 1744-0378
Enduring alliance: a history of NATO and the postwar global order: Timothy Andrews Sayle, (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2019), 346 pp
In: Cold war history, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 588-589
ISSN: 1743-7962
'I am the Servant of the Council': Lord Ismay and the Making of the NATO International Staff
In: Contemporary European history, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 342-357
ISSN: 1469-2171
AbstractBased on analysis of Lord Ismay's private papers and on documents from the NATO archives and the Foreign Office archives, this article examines the role of Lord Ismay as the first Secretary General of NATO. As the first person to occupy the role, with little guidance from the national governments and no previous examples to use as a guiding light, Ismay had the opportunity – and the challenge – to shape the new role and to lay the basis for the long-term development of the International Staff. This article argues that Ismay's careful approach was essential in cementing political consensus within the North Atlantic Council at a time in which the members of the Alliance were still learning to work together.
Reporting from the front: First-hand experiences, dilemmas and open questions
In: Media, war & conflict, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 59-68
ISSN: 1750-6360
NATO and the Environment: The Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society
In: Contemporary European history, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 505-535
ISSN: 1469-2171
AbstractLaunched with considerable fanfare in 1969, the Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS) was supposed to bring new life to NATO by both re-energising public support and engaging with a variety of themes, issues and partners well beyond the alliance's traditional scope. The first aim of this article is to go beyond the careful media operation that surrounded the launch of the CCMS and to examine the scepticism and resistance of some European partners, particularly the British. The second aim is to demonstrate that NATO started to think in terms of crisis management, disaster relief and environmental disasters well before 1989. The sheer military strength of the alliance and of its partners did remain central – and notably came back to the forefront in 1979 – but the alliance did start to see itself as a geopolitical player and to consider engagement beyond its strictly defined geographical area as early as 1969.
Time to Act: The UK in NATO
In: The RUSI journal: publication of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, Band 160, Heft 5, S. 30-34
ISSN: 1744-0378
Time to act: the UK in NATO
In: The RUSI journal: independent thinking on defence and security, Band 160, Heft 5, S. 30-34
ISSN: 0307-1847
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Radio Wars: Broadcasting in the Cold War
In: Cold war history, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 145-152
ISSN: 1743-7962