is a study of the uses of systemic propaganda in U.S. foreign policy. Moving beyond traditional understandings of propaganda, analyzes the expanding and ubiquitous uses of domestic public persuasion under a neoliberal regime and an informational mode of development and its migration to the arena of foreign policy. A highly mobile and flexible corporate-dominated new informational economy is the foundation of intensified Western marketing and promotional culture across spatial and temporal divides, enabling transnational interests to integrate territories previously beyond their reach. U.S. «democracy promotion» and interventions in the Eastern European «color revolutions» in the early twenty-first century serve as studies of neoliberal state interests in action. will be of interest to students of U.S. and European politics, political economy, foreign policy, political communication, American studies, and culture studies.weiterlesen