Cultural Diplomacy in Europe

This edited volume explores European cultural diplomacy, a topic of growing interest across the scholarly and applied public policy communities in recent years. The contributions focus on Europe, culture and diplomacy and the way they are interlinked in the contemporary international context. The European Union increasingly resorts to cultural assets and activity for both internal and external purposes, to foster European cohesion and advancing integration, and to mitigate the demise of other foreign policy components, respectively. This calls for an analysis of the strategic role of culture, especially as it relates to the realm of EU external action. The chapters provide a conceptual discussion of culture in international relations and examine how this concept relates to cultural diplomacy and cultural strategy. The authors discuss roles and relationships with the EU's 2016 Global Strategy and current EU attempts to foster the EU's political and societal resilience.

First volume to systematically analyse the EU's attempt to develop a strategy for international cultural relations

1 Caterina Carta, Introduction: Cultural Diplomacy in Europe: Between Domestic and International Arenas.- PART I. Setting up the institutional machinery: tuning the different voices of European Cultural Diplomacy.- 2 Richard Higgott, EU Cultural Diplomacy: A Contextual Analysis of Constraints and Opportunities.- 3 Stuart MacDonald and Erik Vlaeminck, Culture, Language and Strategy: Definitions and   Discourse in the EU's Strategic framework for Culture in External Relations.- 4 Caterina Carta and Angel Badillo, National ways to Cultural Diplomacy in Europe.- 5 Riccardo Trobbiani and Lina Kirjazovaite, EU Cultural Relations with the MENA.- 6 Silviu Piros and Joachim Koops, Capacity building in higher education as a catalyst for EU education diplomacy.- PART II. The role of Intra-European Cultural Diplomacy in the age of populisms.- 7 Richard Higgott and Virginia Proud, 'The Populist Nationalist Zeitgeist' and the Limits of European Cultural Diplomacy.- 8 Virginia Proud, Culture Under Populism; a nationalist agenda in an EU context.- 9 Caterina Carta and Eleonora Belfiore, 'Reaching across the fault lines?': The role of Cultural Diplomacy in post-Brexit Europe.- PART III. Perspectives on the future.- 10 Riccardo Trobbiani and Andrea Pavon-Guinea, Navigating Uncertainty: The Future of the EU cultural relations.- 11 Caterina Carta and Richard Higgott, Conclusion: Considerations on the strategic deployment of culture in Europe and beyond.