Author : Marta Ubeda
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2019
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Author : Caterina Carta
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030215439
This edited volume explores European cultural diplomacy, a topic of growing interest across the scholarly and applied public policy communities in recent years. The contributions focus on Europe, culture and diplomacy and the way they are interlinked in the contemporary international context. The European Union increasingly resorts to cultural assets and activity for both internal and external purposes, to foster European cohesion and advancing integration, and to mitigate the demise of other foreign policy components, respectively. This calls for an analysis of the strategic role of culture, especially as it relates to the realm of EU external action. The chapters provide a conceptual discussion of culture in international relations and examine how this concept relates to cultural diplomacy and cultural strategy. The authors discuss roles and relationships with the EU’s 2016 Global Strategy and current EU attempts to foster the EU’s political and societal resilience.
Author : Ien Ang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317209583
Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest? is the first book bringing together, from the perspective of the cultural disciplines, scholarship that locates contemporary cultural diplomacy practices within their social, political, and ideological contexts, while examining the different forces that drive them. The contributions to this book have two methodologies: the first, to deconstruct and demystify cultural diplomacy, notably the ‘hype’ that accompanies it, especially when it is yoked to the notion of ‘soft power’; the second, to better understand how contemporary cultural diplomacy actually operates. In applying a cultural lens to the question, this book probes whether there can be such a thing as a cultural diplomacy ‘beyond the national interest’. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.
Author : Nicolas K. Laos
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0875868312
Annotation This original, systematic theory of cultural diplomacy opens a new way of thinking about diplomacy, politics and culture. Dr. Laos methodically investigates the relationship between culture and politics and between the reality of the world and the reality of consciousness. In so doing, he articulates a new approach to international relations theory and the concept of power, one based on philosophical arguments about reality, history and freedom. Dr. Laos takes a stark and realistic look at the interplay between culture and politics and makes an intellectually challenging contribution to normative international relations theory. The author proposes a new way of defining 'critical' political theory (substantially different from the Frankfurt School's approach) which leads to a new, dynamic understanding of history, and he argues that the chessboard of power is not so much on the surface of the earth as in the mental network formed by the communication between consciousnesses. He presents an original explanation of the inherent inability of Realpolitik to account for reality, throwing light on deep and controversial questions of identity for Europe and the West in general.
Author : Jason Dittmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131754174X
This volume offers an inter-disciplinary and critical analysis of the role of culture in diplomatic practice. If diplomacy is understood as the practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of distinct communities or causes, then questions of culture and the spaces of cultural exchange are at its core. But what of the culture of diplomacy itself? When and how did this culture emerge, and what alternative cultures of diplomacy run parallel to it, both historically and today? How do particular spaces and places inform and shape the articulation of diplomatic culture(s)? This volume addresses these questions by bringing together a collection of theoretically rich and empirically detailed contributions from leading scholars in history, international relations, geography, and literary theory. Chapters attend to cross-cutting issues of the translation of diplomatic cultures, the role of space in diplomatic exchange and the diversity of diplomatic cultures beyond the formal state system. Drawing on a range of methodological approaches the contributors discuss empirical cases ranging from indigenous diplomacies of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, to the European External Action Service, the 1955 Bandung Conference, the spatial imaginaries of mid twentieth-century Balkan writer diplomats, celebrity and missionary diplomacy, and paradiplomatic narratives of The Hague. The volume demonstrates that, when approached from multiple disciplinary perspectives and understood as expansive and plural, diplomatic cultures offer an important lens onto issues as diverse as global governance, sovereignty regimes and geographical imaginations. This book will be of much interest to students of public diplomacy, foreign policy, international organisations, media and communications studies, and IR in general.
Author : Mai'a K. Davis Cross
Publisher : Springer
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137315148
Do the various aspects of Europe's multi-leveled public diplomacy form a coherent overall image, or do they work against each other to some extent? European Public Diplomacy pushes the literature on public diplomacy forward through a multifaceted exploration of the European case.
Author : Oliver Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,12 MB
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429576390
This book is the first in a dedicated series that explores questions of cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations. Drawing on a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, it throws new light on the function and operation of policies that seek to change attitudes, values and behaviours across national boundaries and in diverse geocultural contexts. The specific policies explored relate to ways in which sites of past violence and atrocity are deployed in strategies of soft power; to the contribution of culture to EU enlargement; to the use of the Russian language as a soft power resource; to the singularities of the Indian cultural diplomacy; to cultural diplomacy as elite legitimation; to the role of diaspora relations in European cultural diplomacy; to the use of film in post-war cultural diplomacy; and to the role assigned to culture in the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement. Scholars interested in how cultural and foreign policy intersect in widely differing national contexts will find this book an invaluable resource. It was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.
Author : Jozef Bátora
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317156064
Political entities use culture to support their soft power potential, to generate goodwill, to frame international agenda in particular ways, to erect and re-enact boundaries and/or to create societal linkages across them. While the importance of culture has been on the rise in the realm of foreign affairs, its role in this field remains one of the most under-studied aspects of state policy. In this book, a range of international experts take an unprecedented look at what role external cultural policy plays in foreign affairs. The book features historical case studies ranging from European 'civilizing' engagement with nineteenth-century China to uses of Abstract Expressionism as an instrument in the ideological struggles of the Cold War. Conceptual issues ranging from the dynamics of the 'Anglosphere' to the effects of what some term the 'culture of liberal democracy' are addressed. Current trends in the uses of culture in the EU's external relations both from the perspective of institutional developments, policies and practices in the EU and from the perspective of countries engaged by the EU's cultural policies are also discussed in greater detail. The systematic, theoretically informed and empirically supported analyses make this book an indispensable read for scholars and policy makers wishing to gain a new understanding of the role that culture plays in foreign affairs.
Author : Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 23,31 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1845459946
Recent studies on the meaning of cultural diplomacy in the twentieth century often focus on the United States and the Cold War, based on the premise that cultural diplomacy was a key instrument of foreign policy in the nation’s effort to contain the Soviet Union. As a result, the term “cultural diplomacy” has become one-dimensional, linked to political manipulation and subordination and relegated to the margin of diplomatic interactions. This volume explores the significance of cultural diplomacy in regions other than the United States or “western” countries, that is, regions that have been neglected by scholars so far—Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. By examining cultural diplomacy in these regions, the contributors show that the function of information and exchange programs differs considerably from area to area depending on historical circumstances and, even more importantly, on the cultural mindsets of the individuals involved.
Author : Biyun Zhu
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Arts
ISBN :
For a long time, in comparison to military and economy, the importance of arts and culture to nation-states' international standing and diplomatic relations has been underestimated. This bias comes from an insufficient understanding of arts and culture’s impacts on human behavior, nation-states, and international relations. Cultural diplomacy as one of the ways using arts and culture to shape national interests and foreign relations has long existed. In recent years, driven by the discussion of soft power, the study of cultural diplomacy has grown rapidly. However, the mechanism of cultural diplomacy serving as a part of the national strategy is unclear, which can be attributed to the asynchrony between the practice and theory development and calls for case studies with both depth and breadth to update the understanding of cultural diplomacy. The difficulties of such research lie in the enormous work and cross-disciplinary knowledge required to untangle and analyze the historical, sociopolitical, and cultural contexts of cases and distill concepts and theories from that. Targeting the gap and acknowledging the complexities, this dissertation research serves as a preliminary step in cultural diplomacy theory building to explore the mechanism of cultural diplomacy of a particular kind: the flagships. To present a well-grounded definition of flagships and generate a policy design framework for cultural diplomacy flagships, this research focuses on the practice of great powers and selects three flagships, the Fulbright Program (the U.S.), British Council (the UK), and Confucius Institute (China) for case studies and comparison. Through historical studies of individual cases and comparison of the three cases, this research explores the question of how these flagships are designed similarly or differently to address the changing international role of a country in the world. The conclusions of this research have two parts. The first part discusses the policy design of cultural diplomacy flagships from a theoretical level to generate a transferable framework. The second part of the conclusions focuses on the relationship between the cases to identify convergence and divergence as references for future cultural diplomacy research and practice.
