Cultural Diplomacy in Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Cultural Diplomacy in Europe: Between the Domestic and International

   • Caterina Carta

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

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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

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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

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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.

• European integration
• International Cultural Strategy
• Culture in International Relations
• EU Cultural Diplomacy
• policy-making
• discourse
• strategy development
• strategy collaboration
• functional delegation
• arm-length principle
• European Union
• EU member states
• EU and MENA
• 2016 Global Strategy
• Eastern Partnership
• institutional cooperation
• education
• populist nationalist zeitgeist
• populism
• post-Brexit Europe

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

  Caterina Carta

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

  Richard Higgott

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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