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EUROPEAN CINEMA AS CULTURAL DIPLOMACY
MAY 4, 2012
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APDS Blogger: Emina Vukic Ever since the Lumiere brothers gave their first show of projected pictures to an audience in Paris in 1895, there was “a keen awareness of the fundamental and open-ended relationship between the formation and articulation of identity-whether personal, national or European- and the moving image.” European cinema has over the course of the last century gone from having a seminal role in the invention of the new art form and dominating the international markets, to falling into the shadow of the financially incomparably more viable Hollywood films that proved to be more satisfying to the masses.…... Full Text
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WHY NATO NEEDS SOFT POWER
MAY 3, 2012
 Posted by Indra Adnan
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Author’s Note: This blog is the edited version of a speech I gave at the recent NATO conference on The Power of Soft Power. When Joseph Nye first coined the term soft power over 20 years ago, the United States and Europe were in a different place than they are today. We felt we knew the enemy – Russia - and therefore why NATO was required. The world had a clear pecking order, with the U.S. at the top followed by its close friend, Europe. The cultural domination of the U.S. was unchallenged (even in Russia) because of the strength…... Full Text
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PUBLIC DIPLOMACY, BRANDING, AND THE IMAGE OF NATIONS, PART II: MORE OF THE SAME, OR DIFFERENT?
MAY 2, 2012
 Posted by Daryl Copeland
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One of the defining attributes of being in a center of global commerce and culture is the feeling you get when walking down the sidewalks. In London, I found the experience of strolling a few blocks from where I was staying to the downtown campus of UEA London, in large part along the fabled Brick Lane, to be a source of energy and inspiration. Now back in Ottawa for a month, I find the contrast especially striking. Almost painful. The narrow, crumbling sidewalks along the anonymous streets in the Canadian capital’s exquisitely excrescent central business district seem to drain any joy or enthusiasm. With each…... Full Text
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DON’T SHANGHAI MILAN!
APR 28, 2012
 Posted by Andrew Wulf
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I have spent some time as of late picking through the now infamous train wreck that was the American pavilion at Shanghai. Cynthia Schneider offers her opinion on what went wrong here. Here’s my take: The fellow appointed commissioner general, Jose Villareal, was a former fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. He helped raise the $61 million required for the creation of the American pavilion. We do not know what he did as commissioner general because the whole pavilion had been outsourced. The U.S. government had nothing to do with this. Why? Because they didn’t pay for it. In 2010, somebody in…... Full Text
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ASPIRING TO AN INTEREST-FREE CULTURAL DIPLOMACY?
APR 25, 2012
 Posted by Robert Albro
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When I hear from people about the relative advantages of cultural diplomacy, they often point to the apparent “neutrality” or “apolitical” basis of, say, cultural exchange. Coming from an anthropological background, this often advanced claim has always puzzled me. At least historically, when anthropologists have talked about cultures – for example, in the typical mode of cultural relativism – they have referred to the ways that different cultures are either configurations of specific “values” or interpret the world around them in distinct ways. And, if this is not exactly how I would encourage us to think about the culture concept…... Full Text
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