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2 - Turkey Attends the American Classroom

US Modernity as Policy and Propaganda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2021

Nicholas Danforth
Nicholas Danforth
Affiliation:
Wilson Center
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Chapter 2 addresses the diverse ways American diplomats employed their ideas of modernization when crafting policy and propaganda for Turkey. While Americans’ general understanding of what it meant to be modern remained consistently democratic, it was sufficiently malleable that it could accommodate contradictory conclusions about Turkish democracy as US interests shifted. State Department documents also reveal how American ideas about modernity were, with the cooperation of the Turkish government, consciously transformed into propaganda aimed both at encouraging Turkish modernization and advertising America’s modernity.

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AmericaUnited StatesTurkeyCold Warmodernization theorydevelopmentdemocratizationMarshall PlanTruman
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The Remaking of Republican Turkey
Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
 , pp. 38 - 68
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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