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Political entities use culture to support their soft power
potential, to generate goodwill, to frame international agenda in
particular ways, to erect and re-enact boundaries and/or to create
societal linkages across them. While the importance of culture has
been on the rise in the realm of foreign affairs, its role in this
field remains one of the most under-studied aspects of state
policy. In this book, a range of international experts take an
unprecedented look at what role external cultural policy plays in
foreign affairs. The book features historical case studies ranging
from European 'civilizing' engagement with nineteenth-century China
to uses of Abstract Expressionism as an instrument in the
ideological struggles of the Cold War. Conceptual issues ranging
from the dynamics of the 'Anglosphere' to the effects of what some
term the 'culture of liberal democracy' are addressed. Current
trends in the uses of culture in the EU's external relations both
from the perspective of institutional developments, policies and
practices in the EU and from the perspective of countries engaged
by the EU's cultural policies are also discussed in greater detail.
The systematic, theoretically informed and empirically supported
analyses make this book an indispensable read for scholars and
policy makers wishing to gain a new understanding of the role that
culture plays in foreign affairs.
Political entities use culture to support their soft power
potential, to generate goodwill, to frame international agenda in
particular ways, to erect and re-enact boundaries and/or to create
societal linkages across them. While the importance of culture has
been on the rise in the realm of foreign affairs, its role in this
field remains one of the most under-studied aspects of state
policy. In this book, a range of international experts take an
unprecedented look at what role external cultural policy plays in
foreign affairs. The book features historical case studies ranging
from European 'civilizing' engagement with nineteenth-century China
to uses of Abstract Expressionism as an instrument in the
ideological struggles of the Cold War. Conceptual issues ranging
from the dynamics of the 'Anglosphere' to the effects of what some
term the 'culture of liberal democracy' are addressed. Current
trends in the uses of culture in the EU's external relations both
from the perspective of institutional developments, policies and
practices in the EU and from the perspective of countries engaged
by the EU's cultural policies are also discussed in greater detail.
The systematic, theoretically informed and empirically supported
analyses make this book an indispensable read for scholars and
policy makers wishing to gain a new understanding of the role that
culture plays in foreign affairs.
This book questions whether the institutions and practices of the
emerging EU diplomatic system conform to established standards of
the state-centric diplomatic order; or whether practice is paving
the way for innovative, even revolutionary, forms of diplomatic
organisation.
This book analyzes ways how three fringe players of the modern
diplomatic order - the Holy See, the Sovereign Military Order of
Malta, and the EU - have been accommodated within that order,
revealing that the modern diplomatic order is less state-centric
than conventionally assumed and is instead better conceived of as a
heteronomy.
This book analyzes ways how three fringe players of the modern
diplomatic order - the Holy See, the Sovereign Military Order of
Malta, and the EU - have been accommodated within that order,
revealing that the modern diplomatic order is less state-centric
than conventionally assumed and is instead better conceived of as a
heteronomy.
This book makes a distinctive contribution to the crucial debate on
the European Union (EU)'s present and future development. It
systematically examines how the range of crises and challenges over
the last decade have transformed the EU and relates those findings
to the discussion of an increasingly differentiated EU. It argues
that the post-crises EU shows clear signs of becoming a segmented
political order with in-built biases and constraints. The book
spells out the key features of such an order in ideational and
structural terms and shows how it more concretely manifests itself
in the EU's institutional and constitutional make-up and in how
member states constrain and condition EU action. Different states
impose different types of constraints, as is underlined through
paying explicit attention to the Visegrad countries. This book will
be of key interest to scholars and students of EU politics/studies,
European integration and politics, East European politics and
foreign policy.
This book makes a distinctive contribution to the crucial debate on
the European Union (EU)'s present and future development. It
systematically examines how the range of crises and challenges over
the last decade have transformed the EU and relates those findings
to the discussion of an increasingly differentiated EU. It argues
that the post-crises EU shows clear signs of becoming a segmented
political order with in-built biases and constraints. The book
spells out the key features of such an order in ideational and
structural terms and shows how it more concretely manifests itself
in the EU's institutional and constitutional make-up and in how
member states constrain and condition EU action. Different states
impose different types of constraints, as is underlined through
paying explicit attention to the Visegrad countries. This book will
be of key interest to scholars and students of EU politics/studies,
European integration and politics, East European politics and
foreign policy.
What is special about small states? How do they adapt their
policies and patterns of governance to meet turbulent times such as
a new security environment and the international financial crisis?
Answers to these and further questions are provided by experts.
What are the constraints on and opportunities of governance of
small states in an interdependent and increasingly turbulent global
setting? How do small states deal with radical changes in the
international environment? What is the role of political
institutions in facilitating and constraining policy responses to a
rapidly changing international environment? How can political
leadership contribute to stability in times of change? This book
seeks to answer these questions by taking a comparative perspective
on the processes of change and adaptation in the governance of
Norway and Slovakia. These two small European states with highly
open economies have been exposed to the same set of global
turbulences related to post Cold War changes in the security
environment and the global financial crisis; they are also facing
internal challenges that spring from rapidly rising expectations
while demographic shifts put pressure on their welfare systems.
Their governance structures and processes are informed by their
different political-administrative cultures, different history and
levels of stability of democratic governance structures and,
indeed, by their different modes of attachment to the European
Union and other regional integration frameworks. These differences
and a comparative approach in exploring the questions raised above
can shed light not only on the specific forms of adaptation of
governance structures in two small European states, but also
generate insights into the role of integration structures in
facilitating and constraining change.
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