W. Phillips Davison

POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AS AN INSTRUMENT OF FOREIGN POLICY

This article describes some prevailing public attitudes toward political communication as an instrument of foreign policy, and contrasts these attitudes with the approach to foreign propaganda that is suggested by social science research. It is argued that lack of widespread understanding of the capabilities and characteristics of propaganda has interfered with its use as an efficient foreign policy instrument. The author is a Senior Research Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations.

An Outline for the Study of International Political Communications

International political communication conprocess, and attempts to describe some of the stitutes an area in which the organization of principal relationships within this process with existing knowledge is particularly difficult. which the student should be familiar. Presentation of such material as is available The authors are members of the Social Scitherefore offers special problems to the teacher. ence Division of The RAND Corporation, This article suggests an approach to the study Washington, D.C., and lecturers in communiof the international political communication cations at the American University.