1st Edition
Cultural Diplomacy and International Cultural Relations: Volume I
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
Biography
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.
