Culture And Diplomacy

Author : Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht,Mark C. Donfried
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1845459946

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Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht,Mark C. Donfried Pdf

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 : Ien Ang,Yudhishthir Raj Isar,Phillip Mar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317209584

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Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest? by Ien Ang,Yudhishthir Raj Isar,Phillip Mar Pdf

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 : Elisabet Carbó-Catalan,Diana Roig Sanz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110744637

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Culture as Soft Power by Elisabet Carbó-Catalan,Diana Roig Sanz Pdf

This book contributes to bridge the gap between different scholarly communities interested in the entanglements of culture and politics in the international arena. It sheds light on existing connections in their parallel evolution with a thorough literature review, complemented by several case studies showing the fruitful character of their interdisciplinary mobilisation. Through the notions of cultural relations, intellectual cooperation and cultural diplomacy, the book draws on a soft power perspective to offer a shared, novel, and interdisciplinary theoretical framework to approach cultural institutions and organisations that have been previously examined as isolated objects: for example, cultural institutes, international organisations, literary magazines, and literary contests. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume justifies the relevance of its content for scholars working in the history of international relations, international cultural relations and intellectual history, comparative literature, sociology of literature and global literary studies.

Author : I. Kozymka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137366269

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The Diplomacy of Culture by I. Kozymka Pdf

Cultural diversity, because it is perceived to have significant security, developmental, and social implications, is fast becoming one of the major political issues of the day. At the international level, it overlaps with the now extensive debates on multiculturalism within states. This work shows how cultural diversity challenges the understanding of international relations as relations between states and, by looking at the issue through the magnifying glass of an international organization, offers innovative insights into the interplay between various levels of international society. The book examines in particular the role of UNESCO, the only United Nations agency responsible for culture and the main forum for international diplomacy on the issue of cultural diversity.

Author : Jeremy Jones
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748674633

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Oman, Culture and Diplomacy by Jeremy Jones Pdf

This book is a cultural history, offering an historical account of the formation of a distinctive Omani culture; arguing that it is in this unique culture that a specific conception and practice of diplomacy has been developed.

Author : Caterina Carta,Richard Higgott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030215446

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Cultural Diplomacy in Europe by Caterina Carta,Richard Higgott Pdf

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 : Harriet Rudolph,Gregor M. Metzig
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110461299

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Material Culture in Modern Diplomacy from the 15th to the 20th Century by Harriet Rudolph,Gregor M. Metzig Pdf

The present volume aims at outlining a new field of research with regard to the history of diplomacy: the material culture of diplomatic interaction in early modern and modern times. The material culture of diplomacy includes all practices in foreign policy communication in which single artifacts, samples of artifacts, or else the whole material setting of diplomatic interaction is supposed to be constitutive for creating an intended effect in terms of diplomatic objectives. The chapters of this volume focus on intercultural diplomacy in different regions of the world wherein diplomatic actors of various kinds might have been confronted by a whole universe of unfamiliar artifacts and artifact-related practices. Most of them concentrate on gift giving as a diplomatic practice that offers multiple insights in the complex dynamics of diplomatic relations between representatives of culturally highly diverse political entities. In doing so, they gainfully apply different theoretical approaches of material culture as an interdisciplinary field of study to the investigation of diplomatic cultures across the globe. As a result, it becomes obvious that future research into the history of diplomacy should take into account material practices much more thoroughly than has been done before.

Author : Hannah Slavik
Publisher : Diplo Foundation
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Communication, International
ISBN : 9789993253082

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Intercultural Communication and Diplomacy by Hannah Slavik Pdf

Author : Da Kong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000374698

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Museums, International Exhibitions and China's Cultural Diplomacy by Da Kong Pdf

Museums, International Exhibitions and China’s Cultural Diplomacy examines the role museums and, more specifically, international exhibitions, have played in shaping China’s international image to date. Drawing on theories and methods from museum studies and international relations, the book evaluates the contribution international exhibitions make to China’s cultural diplomacy strategy. Considering their impact on the country’s international image, Kong also probes the mechanisms and processes involved, examining in detail the policy of, and international activities promoted by, the Chinese government. The book also analyses the motives of the Chinese and overseas museums that host these exhibitions. Taking some major exhibitions that were on show in the UK during the 21st century as a representative case study, the book reveals the mechanisms by which these exhibitions were developed and shared overseas. Questioning who really shapes the image of China, Kong challenges Western assumptions and looks ahead to consider whether, moving forward, the Chinese government and museums could work together in a mutually beneficial way. Museums, International Exhibitions and China’s Cultural Diplomacy contributes to the growing literature on museums and diplomacy. As such, it will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museums and heritage, international relations, culture, politics, China and wider Asia.

Author : Jason Dittmer,Fiona McConnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317541745

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Diplomatic Cultures and International Politics by Jason Dittmer,Fiona McConnell Pdf

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 : Martha Bayles
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300123388

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Through a Screen Darkly by Martha Bayles Pdf

Why it is a mistake to let commercial entertainment serve as America's de facto ambassador to the world

Author : Cynthia Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351164221

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Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire by Cynthia Scott Pdf

Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire analyzes the history of the negotiations that led to the atypical return of colonial-era cultural property from the Netherlands to Indonesia in the 1970s. By doing so, the book shows that competing visions of post-colonial redress were contested throughout the era of post-World War II decolonization. Considering the danger this precedent posed to other countries, the book looks beyond the Dutch-Indonesian case to the “Elgin (Parthenon) Marbles” and “Benin Bronzes” controversies, as well as recent developments relating to returns in France and the Netherlands. Setting aside the “universalism versus nationalism” debate, Scott asserts that the deeper meaning of post-colonial cultural property disputes in European history has more to do with how officials of former colonial powers negotiated decolonization, while also creating contemporary understandings of their nations’ pasts. As a whole, the book expands the field of cultural restitution studies and offers a more nuanced understanding of the connections drawn between postcolonial national identity making and the extension of cultural diplomacy. Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire offers a new perspective on the international influence of the UNGA and UNESCO on the return debate. As such, the book will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners engaged in the study of cultural property diplomacy and law, museum and heritage studies, modern European history, post-colonial studies and historical anthropology.

Author : Karène Sanchez Summerer,Sary Zananiri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Christians
ISBN : 9783030555405

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European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948 by Karène Sanchez Summerer,Sary Zananiri Pdf

This open access book investigates the transnationally connected history of Arab Christian communities in Palestine during the British Mandate (1918-1948) through the lens of the birth of cultural diplomacy. Relying predominantly on unpublished sources, it examines the relationship between European cultural agendas and local identity formation processes and discusses the social and religious transformations of Arab Christian communities in Palestine via cultural lenses from an entangled perspective. The 17 chapters reflect diverse research interests, from case studies of individual archives to chapters that question the concept of cultural diplomacy more generally. They illustrate the diversity of scholarship that enables a broad-based view of how cultural diplomacy functioned during the interwar period, but also the ways in which its meanings have changed. The book considers British Mandate Palestine as an internationalised node within a transnational framework to understand how the complexity of cultural interactions and agencies engaged to produce new modes of modernity. Karène Sanchez Summerer is Associate Professor at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her research considers the European linguistic and cultural policies and the Arab communities (1860-1948) in Palestine. She is the PI of the research project (2017-2022), 'CrossRoads: European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine (1918-1948)' (project funded by The Netherlands National Research Agency, NWO). She is the co-editor of the series 'Languages and Culture in History' with W. Frijhoff, Amsterdam University Press. She is part of the College of Experts: ESF European Science Foundation (2018-2021). Sary Zananiri is an artist and cultural historian.He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow on the NWO funded project 'CrossRoads: European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine (1918-1948)' at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Author : Martina Topić,Siniša Rodin
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cultural policy
ISBN : 3631621620

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Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Imperialism by Martina Topić,Siniša Rodin Pdf

This book aims to contribute to the debate on European cultural policy and cultural diplomacy as well as to fill in the gap that exists in this under-researched field. It examines individual practices in 10 selected cases while the introduction study outlines main features of the EU cultural diplomacy.

Author : Michael L. Krenn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472508782

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The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy by Michael L. Krenn Pdf

In the wake of 9/11, the United States government rediscovered the value of culture in international relations, sending cultural ambassadors around the world to promote the American way of life. This is the most recent effort to use American culture as a means to convince others that the United States is a land of freedom, equality, opportunity, and scientific and cultural achievements to match its material wealth and military prowess. In The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy Michael Krenn charts the history of the cultural diplomacy efforts from Benjamin Franklin's service as commissioner to France in the 1770s through to the present day. He explores how these efforts were sometimes inspiring, often disastrous, and nearly always controversial attempts to tell the 'truth' about America. This is the first comprehensive study of America's efforts in the field of cultural diplomacy. It reveals a dynamic conflict between those who view U.S. culture as a means to establish meaningful dialogues with the rest of the world and those who consider American art, music, theater as additional propaganda weapons.