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CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT AS GLOCAL DIPLOMACY
MAY 12, 2012
 Posted by Robert Albro
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If we do not highlight it often enough, cultural diplomacy promotes the creation of transnational social spaces of engagement and interaction. And, even as they are often identified with particular cultures or countries, cultural diplomatic interventions are also unavoidably cosmopolitan in nature, insofar as they move between, confront, and conjoin multiple social worlds. In this way and even when carried away by the worst excesses of national chauvinisms, cultural diplomacy is inherently a transnationalist project of sorts. How does the work of cultural diplomacy account for its perpetual context of “transit”? But nor do events and expressions of cultural diplomacy…... Full Text
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EUROPEAN CINEMA AS CULTURAL DIPLOMACY
MAY 4, 2012
 Posted by APDS Bloggers
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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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NATO GRAPPLES WITH SOFT POWER
MAR 29, 2012
 Posted by Philip Seib
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BRUSSELS --- Since its founding in 1949, NATO has been a bastion of hard power, first as an alliance arrayed against the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies, and more recently as a manifestation of Western muscle in conflicts such as Kosovo in 1999 and Libya in 2011. Coming off its decisive performance in helping to end the rule of Muammar Qaddafi, NATO seems to be happily basking in macho glory. NATO has a public diplomacy department staffed with smart and dedicated people, but it became apparent at a conference on “The Power of Soft Power,” held recently in…... Full Text
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