Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest?

Name: Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest?
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest?Author(s): Ien Ang, Yudhishthir Isar, Phillip Mar\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138669772, 978-1138669772\nSynopsis\nCultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest? is the first book bringing together, from the perspective of the cultural disciplines, scholarship that locates contemporary cultural diplomacy practices within their social, political, and ideological contexts, while examining the different forces that drive them. \n\nThe contributions to this book have two methodologies: the first, to deconstruct and demystify cultural diplomacy, notably the hype that accompanies it, especially when it is yoked to the notion of soft power; the second, to better understand how contemporary cultural diplomacy actually operates. In applying a cultural lens to the question, this book probes whether there can be such a thing as a cultural diplomacy beyond the national.