Creating Connected Constituencies: The Strategy and Limits of US Propaganda and Influence in Early Cold War Syria, 1945–60

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I. Ouahes
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This article examines the state-private network binding cultural diplomatic institutions, East Coast establishment elites and US psychological operations against Soviet Russia in early Cold War (1945–60) Syria. It outlines the role of the State Department, the United States Information Agency (usia), and the short-lived Psychological Strategy Board (psb)’s efforts to coordinate a coherent US psychological strategy to influence Syria’s elites and to make connected constituents of them via the “long-established instruments” of the state-private network. Among these instruments were the Near East Foundation (nef), the Franklin Books Program, and the Committee of Correspondence (CoC). A key argument of this article is that the “Eisenhower escalation” of the Cold War, which culminated in the 1957 attempted coup in Syria, was not a radical departure that ruined the previous “century of friendship” between Syria and the US. Instead, it was a risky and frustrated gamble seeking to reverse the pre-existing loss of US influence.
建立相互关联的选区:美国在冷战初期叙利亚的宣传和影响力的策略和局限,1945-60
本文考察了冷战初期(1945-60年)叙利亚的文化外交机构、东海岸建制精英和美国对苏俄的心理战之间的公私网络关系。它概述了国务院、美国新闻署(usia)和短暂的心理战略委员会(psb)的作用,即协调一致的美国心理战略,以影响叙利亚的精英,并通过国家-私人网络的“长期建立的工具”使他们的组成部分相互联系。这些工具包括近东基金会(nef)、富兰克林图书计划和通信委员会(CoC)。本文的一个关键论点是,以1957年叙利亚未遂政变为高潮的冷战“艾森豪威尔升级”(Eisenhower escalation),并不是彻底破坏叙利亚与美国之前“百年友谊”的背离。相反,这是一场冒险而令人沮丧的赌博,试图扭转美国影响力早就丧失的局面。
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