Cultural Diplomacy 2100-ERASMUS-CUDI

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

- Define and explain key concepts, theories, and historical developments related to cultural diplomacy and soft power.
- Identify and analyze major actors and institutions engaged in cultural diplomacy, including states, NGOs, international organizations, and private entities.
- Evaluate the strategic use of cultural tools (e.g., art, language, education, media) in international relations and foreign policy.
- Compare and contrast national cultural diplomacy strategies from various countries, including traditional and emerging approaches.
- Critically assess the ethical, political, and economic implications of cultural diplomacy practices.
- Demonstrate understanding of how cultural narratives shape international image and public perception.
- Design a basic cultural diplomacy project or initiative aimed at enhancing mutual understanding and international cooperation.
- Apply knowledge of cultural diplomacy to analyze contemporary case studies, including conflicts, global crises, and international cultural exchanges.
- Communicate ideas effectively in both oral and written form, using academic and professional standards relevant to international cultural policy.
- Collaborate in multicultural and interdisciplinary teams to explore global challenges and propose culturally sensitive solutions.

- Attendance and Participation (20%): Overall attendance and participation in
class discussion will be accounted for in the final grade.
- Oral presentation (30%): Each student should 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.

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/viewcontent.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.

US:

Nye J.S. (2007). Soft Power
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/

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