Promoting Canadian Studies Abroad: Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy

ISBN-13: 9783319740263 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 250 str.

Stephen Brooks

Opis

The contributors to this book focus on the process whereby Canadian studies became institutionalized in their respective countries and on the balance between what might be described as Canadian studies for its own sake versus Canadian studies as a deliberate instrument of cultural diplomacy.

Spis treści

1. Uncertain Embrace: The Rise and Fall of Canadian Studies Abroad as a Tool of Foreign Policy

Stephen Brooks

2. Getting on the American Radar Screen: The Growth, Achievements and Limitations of Canadian Studies in the United States

Stephen Brooks

3. Down But Not Out: British Academics Resolutely Determined to Explore Canada

Alan Hallsworth and Susan Hodgett

4. Canadian Studies in France

Jean-Michel Lacroix

5. Canadian Studies in China: Dividends from a Near-forgotten Age of Hope and Opening

Jeremy Paltiel

6. Canadian Studies in Japan

Masako Iino

7. Canadian Studies in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and Contemporary Russia

Yuriy G. Akimov and Kristina Minkova

8. From Individual Scholarship to Academic Institution: Canadian Studies in the German-Speaking Countries and Cultural Diplomacy

Wolfgang Klooss

9. Canadian Studies in the Nordic Countries

Robert C. Thomsen and Janne Korkka

10. Lessons Learned

Stephen Brooks

O autorze

Stephen Brooks is Professor of Political Science at University of Windsor, Canada, and Occasional Lecturer at Sciences Po Lille, France.

Blurb

This volume examines the history and current state of Canadian studies in a number of countries and regions across the world, including Canada's major trading partners. From the mid-1980s until 2012, Canadian studies was seen as an important tool of soft power, increasing awareness of Canadian culture, institutions and history. The abrupt termination in 2012 of the Canadian government's financial support for these activities triggered a debate that is still ongoing about the benefits that may have flowed from this support and whether the decision should be reversed. The contributors to this book focus on the process whereby Canadian studies became institutionalized in their respective countries and on the balance between what might be described as Canadian studies for its own sake versus Canadian studies as a deliberate instrument of cultural diplomacy. 

Stephen Brooks is Professor of Political Science at University of Windsor, Canada, and Occasional Lecturer at Sciences Po Lille, France.