Cultural Diplomacy 2100-ERASMUS-CUDI
This course will introduce a major sub-area of Public Diplomacy, and one which many
practitioners feel is underrated: Cultural Diplomacy. This course will examine institutions,
methods and big issues in cultural diplomacy. It will mix a historical perspective with the
study of contemporary applications, and examples from all over the world.
Key concepts will include culture, popular culture, public diplomacy, propaganda, exchange
and dialogue. Major cases will include the use of art, sport, film and music in public
diplomacy, exhibitions and educational exchanges.
Cultural Diplomacy - theories, definitions
Roots & history of cultural Diplomacy
Exchanges
Sports diplomacy
Music diplomacy
Performative arts
Arts diplomacy
Case studies: US, USSR
Case studies: France, Asian countries
Project presentations
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
Attendance and Participation (20%): Overall attendance and participation in
class discussion will be accounted for in the final grade.
Oral presentation (30%): Each student must present an oral case study of a
particular instance of cultural diplomacy.
Cultural Diplomacy Exercise (50%):
The major assessment for this course is an exercise in the real-world cultural diplomacy.
Students will be allocated a country and be commissioned to design a cultural diplomacy
event for the Embassy of that country in Warsaw to the imagined budget of 30,000 PLN.
To be presented as detailed proposal including a rationale for how
the event should shape or re-shape the image of their country in Poland.
Bibliography
Theory
Dinnie K., E. Sevin. (2020). The changing nature of nation branding: Implications for public
diplomacy, [in:] N. Snow, N.J. Cull (red.), Handbook of public diplomacy, 2. wyd., Routledge,
New York, s. 137–144.
Hocking B. (2005). Rethinking the ‘new’ public diplomacy, [in:] J. Melissen (red.), The new
public diplomacy: Soft power in International Relations, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills,
Basingstoke, New York, s. 28–43.
Melissen J. (2005). The new public diplomacy: Between theory and practice, [in:] J. Melissen
(red.), The new public diplomacy: Soft power in International Relations, Palgrave Macmillan,
Houndmills, Basingstoke, New York, s. 3–27.
History:
Arndt Richard T. (2007). The First Resort of Kings. American Cultural Diplomacy in the
Twentieth Century. Potomac Books
Cull N.J. (2008). The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American
propaganda and public diplomacy, 1945–1989. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
New York.
Cull N.J. (2009). Public diplomacy before Gullion, [w:] N. Snow, P.M. Taylor (red.), Routledge
handbook of public diplomacy, Routledge, New York, s. 19–23.
Holt R.T. (1958). Radio Free Europe, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
Puddington A. (2000). Broadcasting freedom: the Cold War triumph of Radio Free Europe
and Radio Liberty, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington; online:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200525173757id_/https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewconten
t.cgi?article=1003&context=upk_cultural_history;
International Convention concerning the Use of Broadcasting in the Cause of Peace, 23rd
September 1936,
https://treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=0800000280046246&clang=_en
Types of Cultural Diplomacy:
Scott-Smith G. (2020). Exchange programs and public diplomacy, [w:] N. Snow, N.J. Cull
(red.), Handbook of public diplomacy, 2. wyd., Routledge, New York, s. 38–49.
Scott-Smith G. (2023). International exchanges, [w:] E. Gilboa (red.), A research agenda for
public diplomacy, Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton 2023, s. 251–266
Caute David (2003). The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the
Cold War Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
Hajdari Labinot (2019). The role of sports and music in public diplomacy : the case of
Kosovo / Labinot Hajdari
Soft Power:
Nye J.S. (2004) Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics, 2004
Cesar Villanueva Rivas, Representing cultural diplomacy: soft power, cosmopolitan
constructivism and nation branding in Mexico and Sweden. Växjö
University Press, 2007
Sevin E. (2017). Understanding soft power through public diplomacy in contrasting polities,
[w:] N. Chitty, Li Ji, G.D. Rawnsley, C. Hayden (red.), The Routledge handbook of soft
power, Routledge, London, New York, s. 62–71.
USA
Nye J.S. (2007). Soft Power: Jak osiągnąć sukces w polityce światowej, Wydawnictwa
Akademickie i Profesjonalne, Warszawa, s. 64–106.
van Ham P. (2005). Power, public diplomacy, and the Pax Americana, [w:] J. Melissen (red.),
The new public diplomacy: Soft power in International Relations, Palgrave Macmillan,
Houndmills, Basingstoke, New York, s. 47–66.
Reinhold Wagnleitner and Elaine Tyler May, eds. Here, There, and Everywhere:
The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture. University Press of New
England, 2000,
Website: U.S. Department of State, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs:
https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-public-diplomacy-and-public-
affairs/
France
Charillon F. (2020). Public diplomacy à la française, [w:] N. Snow, N.J. Cull (red.), Handbook
of public diplomacy, 2. wyd., Routledge, New York, s. 264–272.
Lane P. (2013). French scientific and cultural diplomacy, Liverpool University Press,
Liverpool.
Website: France Diplomacy: https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/
Website: Ambasady Francji w Polsce: http://www.ambafrance-pl.org/
Useful Websites:
Public Diplomacy Institute: http://pdi.gwu.edu/
British Council http://www.britishcouncil.org/home
State Department Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs
http://exchanges.state.gov/
UNESCO http://portal.unesco.org/
Cultural Diplomacy News: http://www.culturaldiplomacynews.org/
Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin
http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/index.php?en
Balance of Culture blog http://balanceofculture.com/
Additional information
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