1st Edition

Cultural Diplomacy in Southern Europe Spain, Portugal and Greece in the Twentieth Century

324 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

324 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a comprehensive overview of how culture, science, technology and academic activity functioned as instruments of cultural diplomacy and soft power in Spain, Portugal and Greece during the interwar and Cold War periods. Cultural Diplomacy in Southern Europe is particularly timely due to the growing academic focus on the role of culture and science as relevant actors in... Read more

Introduction
Marició Janué i Miret, Eva March, Jose-Miguel Pacheco Castelao, and Albert Presas i Puig

Part 1: Participation in Transnational Networks in the Interwar Period

1. ‘Blood and Culture’: Spanish Expatriates as Cultural Diplomacy Actors, 1921–1936
Luis G. Martínez-del-Campo

2. Pharmaceutical Industry, Malaria Research, Cultural Diplomacy: The 1925 Barcelona Medical Mission to Germany
Javier Martínez Antonio

3. Stateless Nations and Cultural Diplomacy in the Interwar Period: The Catalan Art Exhibitions Abroad
Eva March

4. Centres, Peripheries and Romanesque Art: Josep Puig i Cadafalch and the First International Congresses of Art History
Lucila Mallart

5. Science Diplomacy in a Climate of Nationalism: Archaeology in Portugal between the World Wars
Quintino Lopes, Ângela Salgueiro and Elisabete Pereira

Part 2: Flirting with Fascism and National Socialism

6. Cultural Diplomacy as a Political Resource for Francoist Spain in its Relations with Nazi Germany
Marició Janué i Miret

7. Health Policies in Early Francoist International Diplomacy
Josep L. Barona

8. Flirting with Authoritarianism and Fascism through Technology and Science: Ioannis Metaxas’ Dictatorship and Technology and Science as Cultural Diplomacy
Vassilios A. Bogiatzis

Part 3: Integration in the West during the Cold War

9. Lost in Translation: Ramón Ortiz Translates John von Neumann
Jose-Miguel Pacheco Castelao

10. Spain and the American Space Race during the Cold War
Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla and Óscar J. Martín García

11. The Cold War and Educational Exchanges: The Origins of the Fulbright Program in Portugal
Luís Nuno Rodrigues

12. Towards the Limelight: Portuguese Cultural Diplomacy in the Cold War Period
Carlos Vargas

13. Greece and Its Image as a Western Country: Cultural Diplomacy in the Early Cold War
Areti Adamopoulou

14. Cold War Techno-Diplomacy and the Making of the Telecom State in Greece from 1945 to 1974
Yannis Fotopoulos and Stathis Arapostathis

Part 4: Cross-Sectional Analysis

15. Spanish Science Diplomacy as Soft Power during the Twentieth Century: A Permanent Discontinuity or a Continuous Failure?
Albert Presas i Puig

16. Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Frameworks and Dynamics of Portuguese Scientific and Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century
Maria Fernanda Rollo

17. Science Diplomacy as a Framework for Educational and Research Agendas
Kostas Gavroglu and Grigoris Panoutsopoulos

Biography

Marició Janué i Miret is Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of Humanities at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Her areas of current research interests focus on the role of culture in Spanish-German relations in the period of National Socialism and on the re-establishment of Spanish-German cultural diplomacy in the postwar period.

Eva March is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Humanities at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Her current research addresses cultural transfers and methodological issues related to patterns of artistic reception and the ideological and political dimensions of art exhibitions in the first half of the twentieth century.

José-Miguel Pacheco Castelao is Professor (retired) of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a member of the Royal Canary Academy of Sciences. He has published in Archive for the History of Exact Science, Science in Context, Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática, among others.

Albert Presas i Puig is Associate Professor at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. His research career has been mainly focused on the study of knowledge transfer mechanisms from the generating countries to countries located on the scientific periphery and the role of science and technology in international settings.