title: The forgotten process: Information disarmament in the Soviet/US reproachment of the 1980s
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metadata.value: Cull, Nicholas J.
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metadata.value: 2021-10-06T08:56:40Z
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metadata.value: 2021-10-06T08:56:40Z
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metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.value: Cull N. J. The forgotten process: Information disarmament in the Soviet/US reproachment of the 1980s. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2021, vol. 14, issue 3, pp. 257–272.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu06.2021.301
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33240
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article contends that just as an excess of conventional arms requires a disarmament processes,
  so the weaponization of media should be met with an information disarmament process.
  The article examines elements of this work deployed to assist in the US — Soviet rapprochement
  of the 1980s. Cases discussed include a mutual textbook review project, citizento-
  citizen conferences mounted by the Chautauqua Society and a series of forums held via
  satellite television links called Spacebridges. The emergence of government-to-government
  information talks in which the United States Information Agency led by Charles Z. Wick
  engaged various elements of the Soviet state media apparatus is traced. The meetings from
  1986 through 1989 are summarized, including the frank discussion of the challenge of disinformation
  and of mutual stereotyping. It is asserted that this process was more effective
  than is generally remembered, but success required a rough symmetry within the US/Soviet
  relationship. The internal crisis within the USSR repositioned the country as a junior partner
  and led the US to misperceive the end of the Cold War in terms of victory and defeat, with
  counterproductive results.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 14; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: information disarmament
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: propaganda
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: public diplomacy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: disinformation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Spacebridges
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: citizen diplomacy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: exchange diplomacy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cold War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: US — Soviet Relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Reagan
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Gorbachev
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: United States Information Agency
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The forgotten process: Information disarmament in the Soviet/US reproachment of the 1980s
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metadata.value: Article
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