Cultural Diplomacy and International Cultural Relations: Volume I

ISBN-13: 9780367661205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 128 str.

Oliver Bennett

Opis

This book explores questions of cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations and examines the function and operation of policies that seek to change attitudes across the world. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.

Spis treści

Introduction: cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations  1. Soft power and dark heritage: multiple potentialities  2. European integration through ‘soft conditionality’: The contribution of culture to EU enlargement in Southeast Europe  3. Soft power, Russia and the former Soviet states: a case study of Russian language and education in Armenia  4. Cultural diplomacy: India does it differently  5. Cultural diplomacy in Qatar: between ‘virtual enlargement’, national identity construction and elite legitimation  6. European cultural diplomacy: diaspora relations with Kazakhstan  7. De-demonising Japan? Transitioning from war to peace through Japan’s cinematic post-war cultural diplomacy in UNESCO’s Orient project 1957–1959  8. Cultural diversity and free trade: the case of the EU-Canada agreement

O autorze

Oliver Bennett is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Policy at the University of Warwick, UK. His publications include Cultures of Optimism: The Institutional Promotion of Hope (2015); The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History (with Eleonora Belfiore, 2008); and Cultural Pessimism: Narratives of Decline in the Postmodern World (2001). He is the founding editor of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.