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Cultural Diplomacy in Europe

Between the Domestic and the International

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Editors:
  1. Caterina Carta

    1. Department of Political Science, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

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  2. Richard Higgott

    1. Institute for European Studies (IES), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

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  • First volume to systematically analyse the EU’s attempt to develop a strategy for international cultural relations
  • Links conceptual discussions of culture in international relations with cultural diplomacy and strategy
  • Advances scholarship in international relations, European studies and cultural studies

Part of the book series: The European Union in International Affairs (EUIA)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Cultural Diplomacy in Europe: Between the Domestic and International

    • Caterina Carta
    Pages 1-16

  3. Setting up the Institutional Machinery: Tuning the Different Voices of European Cultural Diplomacy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. EU Cultural Diplomacy: A Contextual Analysis of Constraints and Opportunities

      • Richard Higgott
      Pages 19-40

    3. A Vision of Europe Through Culture: A Critical Assessment of Cultural Policy in the EU’s External Relations

      • Stuart MacDonald, Erik Vlaeminck
      Pages 41-62

    4. National Ways to Cultural Diplomacy in Europe: The Case for Institutional Comparison

      • Caterina Carta, Ángel Badillo
      Pages 63-88

    5. Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Relations: A Northern Current in Troubled Waters?

      • Riccardo Trobbiani, Lina Kirjazovaite
      Pages 89-111

    6. Towards a Sustainable Approach to EU Education Diplomacy? The Case of Capacity-Building in the Eastern Neighbourhood

      • Silviu Piros, Joachim Koops
      Pages 113-138

  4. The Role of Intra-European Cultural Diplomacy in the Age of Populisms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. The Influence of Populism and Nationalism on European International Cultural Relations and Cultural Diplomacy

      • Richard Higgott, Virginia Proud
      Pages 141-165

    3. A Nationalist Agenda in an EU Context: Implications for Contemporary Culture in Central Europe

      • Virginia Proud
      Pages 167-189

    4. ‘Reaching Across the Fault Lines?’: The Role of Cultural Diplomacy in Post-Brexit Europe

      • Caterina Carta, Eleonora Belfiore
      Pages 191-213

  5. Perspectives on the Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
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    2. Navigating Uncertainty: The Future of EU International Cultural Relations

      • Riccardo Trobbiani, Andrea Pavón-Guinea
      Pages 217-237

    3. Conclusion: On the Strategic Deployment of Culture in Europe and Beyond

      • Caterina Carta, Richard Higgott
      Pages 239-261

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 263-274
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

    Caterina Carta

  • Institute for European Studies (IES), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

    Richard Higgott

About the editors

Caterina Carta is Associate Professor of International Relations at Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Public Diplomacy.

Richard Higgott is Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick, UK, and Research Professor at the Institute for European Studies (IES) and Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy at Vesalius College (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.

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