Description
In Information War, former United States Information Agency employee Nancy Snow describes how U.S. propaganda efforts and covert operations are expanding more rapidly today than at any other time in U.S. history, as the Bush administration attempts to increase U.S. dominance by curbing dissent and controlling opinion. Snow lays out the propaganda techniques that the government uses to control dissent in the twenty-first century, spotlights the key players and their spinmeistering abilities in the information war, and describes memorable "leaks" in the Administration’s efforts to conduct stealth propaganda programs and control information at home. Ultimately she shows that dissent and true democracy are the early casualties of these policies.
About the Author
Nancy Snow holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from American University's School of International Service in Washington, D.C. In AY 2023/2024, she served as Fulbright Professor of Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communications in Athens, Greece at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences ("Panteion"). She also lectured at the Hellenic National Defense College and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Snow held the Walt Disney Faculty Endowed Chair in Global Media at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, and remains a visiting distinguished professor and guest lecturer in strategic communications with the Schwarzman Scholars Program. For six years, Snow held a special appointment as Pax Mundi ("Distinguished") Professor of Public Diplomacy at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, the first full-time PD professor in Japan. She maintains many professional affiliations: strategic communications advisor at the International Security Industry Council Japan; senior fellow at the Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications; faculty advisor to the OIST Foundation; adjunct fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University Japan; and senior advisor in global public affairs with Kreab Tokyo.Dr. Snow is an Emerita Professor of Communications at California State University, Fullerton, and a former Adjunct Professor in the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California where she was founding faculty of the Center on Public Diplomacy and Masters in Public Diplomacy program. Her visiting professor appointments include China (Tsinghua), Israel (Reichman/IDC-Herzliya), Japan (Sophia/Keio), and Malaysia (UiTM), as well as Syracuse University’s Maxwell and Newhouse Schools.Snow is the author, editor, or co-editor of 16 books, as well as Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Persian, and Portuguese translations. Her most recent is the 8th edition of "Propaganda and Persuasion" (Sage, 2025); "Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy" (with Nicholas J. Cull); "Japan's Information War"; "The SAGE Handbook of Propaganda" (with Paul Baines and Nicholas O'Shaughnessy); "Routledge Handbook of Critical Public Relations"; "Propaganda and American Democracy"; "Information War"; and "Propaganda, Inc."Snow is a three-time award recipient of a Fulbright (Germany/Japan/Greece) and Abe Fellowship, and has served as a U.S. Speaker and Specialist in Public Diplomacy for the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.Snow is contracted to publish "Battleship Diplomat: The Enduring Story of the Mighty Mo in US-Japan Relations" (Naval Institute Press).
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