The (Real)politiks of Culture: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy in Unesco, 1946–1954

Graham makes the case that the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) acted as a de facto arm of the US foreign service in the period from 1946-1954, as the US sought to generate an anti-Communist sentiment in other nations during the Cold War. The US had the money and power to dominate UNESCO's agenda and prinicples, and used it to shape world opinion.