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

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 dipl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Explorations in Culture and International History ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (278 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • Introduction SEARCHING FOR A CULTURAL DIPLOMACY
  • WHAT ARE WE SEARCHING FOR? Culture, Diplomacy, Agents, and the State
  • THE MODEL OF CULTURAL DIPLOMACY Power, Distance, and the Promise of Civil Society
  • Part I CULTURAL RELATIONS AND THE SOVIET UNION
  • Chapter 1 VOKS The Third Dimension of Soviet Foreign Policy
  • Chapter 2 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? Selling Soviet Socialism to Americans, 1955–1958
  • Part II CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN CENTRAL EUROPE
  • Chapter 3 HUNGARIAN CULTURAL DIPLOMACY, 1957–1963 Echoes of Western Cultural Activity in a Communist Country
  • Chapter 4 CATHOLICS IN OSTPOLITIK? Networking and Nonstate Diplomacy in the Bensberger Memorandum, 1966–1970
  • Part III CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
  • Chapter 5 INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY AND CULTURE IN SYRIA AND LEBANON UNDER THE FRENCH MANDATE
  • Chapter 6 THE UNITED STATES AND THE LIMITS OF CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST, 1945–1957
  • Part IV CIVIL SOCIETY AND CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN JAPAN
  • Chapter 7 DIFFICULTIES FACED BY NATIVE JAPAN INTERPRETERS Nitobe Inazô (1862–1933) and His Generation
  • Chapter 8 “GERMANY IN EUROPE”, “JAPAN AND ASIA” National Commitments to Cultural Relations within Regional Frameworks
  • INDEX