Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy
Explorations in Culture and International History Series
General Editor: Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
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Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy
Edited by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht and Mark C. Donfried
SEARCHING FOR A CULTURAL DIPLOMACY
Edited by
Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
and Mark C. Donfried
Published in 2010 by
Berghahn Books
www.berghahnbooks.com
2010, 2013 Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht and Mark C. Donfried
First paperback edition published in 2013
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Searching for a cultural diplomacy / edited by Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht and Mark C. Donfried.
p. cm. (Explorations in culture and international history series ; v. 6)
ISBN 978-1-84545-746-4 (hardback alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-84545-994-9 (institutional ebook) ISBN 978-1-78238-079-5 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-78238-080-1 (retail ebook)
1. Cultural relations. 2. World politics19451989. I. Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E., 1964 II. Donfried, Mark C., 1978
D843.S36 2010
327.1dc22
2010023852
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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Printed in the United States on acid-free paper
ISBN 978-1-78238-079-5 paperback
ISBN 978-1-78238-080-1 retail ebook
CONTENTS
Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht and Mark C. Donfried
Jean-Franois Fayet
Rsa Magnsdttir
Anik Macher
Annika Frieberg
Jennifer Dueck
James R. Vaughan
Yuzo Ota
Maki Aoki-Okabe, Yoko Kawamura, and Toichi Makita
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
With a project as interdisciplinary and international as one that searches for a cultural diplomacy, there is necessarily a challenge of overcoming the physical, methodological, and ideological distances that exist between the many people involved. In this case however, the shared interest in and enthusiasm for this crucial aspect of international relations provided a steady foundation, allowing the project to proceed very smoothly. Our foremost gratitude therefore goes to the essayists, whose combined work provides a new insight into the range and the influence of cultural diplomacy across the globe.
Some of the essays from this book are based on papers that were presented at the conference Culture and International History III hosted by the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. We would like to thank the primary sponsor of this conference, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, and in particular Dr. Frank Suder, without whose major contribution the conference could not have been initiated. We also thank the US Embassy for the generous grant assistance they provided for our international scholars. Also vital to the success of this conference was the staff of the Goethe University Gstehaus, above all Frau Maria Reinhardt. Similarly, the staff of the Center for North American Studies was of enormous help. We would particularly like to thank our student assistant there, Annika Poppe.
For their hard work in managing the conference and then proofreading, formatting, editing, and sub-editing contributions, we owe a debt of gratitude to the interns at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, namely: Mariusz Bartoszewicz, Castle Sinicrope, Leila Mukhida, Matthew Nobblit, and Sam Powney. At the University of Cologne, Jochen Molitor went out of his way to format and edit all notes and bibliographies while Carolin Fischer served as a patient and diligent assistant during the copyediting process. And once again, Wayne Moquin compiled the index with a keen eye for detail.
We are very grateful to the anonymous reviewers appointed by Berghahn Books for their thoughtful comments, and to the essayists for their willingness to share their ideas and make numerous revisions. Jaime Taber proved to be an excellent copyeditor. Special thanks also go to Marion Berghahn at Berghahn Books for all the hard work, enthusiasm, and encouragement she has invested in our research and this publication. Were it not for her support and interest in our project, this publication would not have been possible. Chapeau, once again!
Cologne and Berlin, July 2010
CONTRIBUTORS
MAKI AOKI-OKABE is a research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies at the Japan External Trade Organization. She is the author of several papers on regional integration in East Asia, focusing especially on Japan and Thailand. As a visiting research fellow in Thammasat University in Thailand from 2007 to 2009, she conducted research on Thailands regional cooperation policy in the postcold war era, which is her PhD dissertation topic at the University of Tokyo.
MARK C. DONFRIED is the director and founder of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD). After completing his undergraduate studies in European history and French at Columbia University, he pursued graduate research at the Institut des tudes Politiques, where he wrote his thesis on la diplomatie du jazz. He then worked as an analyst at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, the Mergers and Acquisitions Department of Credit Suisse First Boston, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Auswrtige Politik. In 2001 he founded the ICD, an independent, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization based in New York City. The ICD has since opened a European headquarters in Berlin, where Mark is presently a visiting professor at Humboldt University. His recent research and publications focus on civil societybased cultural diplomacy.
JENNIFER DUECK, who earned a D.Phil. in History at the University of Oxford, was awarded the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies for her doctoral thesis on culture and politics in French Mandate Syria and Lebanon. Currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, Dr Dueck has held positions in Middle Eastern history at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics. Her recent book, entitled The Claims of Culture at Empires End: Syria and Lebanon under French Rule
