Course: Cultural Diplomacy

The concept of soft power enjoyed great success in Turkey and has been widely adopted both by observers and politicians. Since the 1990s and increasingly later in the 2000s, the …

The notion of soft power was introduced by Harvard Professor Joseph Nye. It assumes that a country’s artists, film-makers, language and values, can make it attractive and enhance its power. …

The Chinese state increasingly aspires to affirm itself as a key global power. To do so, it has developed a dynamic public diplomacy strategy.

Diplomacy is generally associated with secrecy: closed dinners, secret agreements and meetings. But a large part of the diplomatic process is strategically made public. Public diplomacy is a state’s strategy …

National cultural institutes remain a key tool of cultural cooperation, as shown by the tremendous expansion of the Chinese Confucius Institutes around the world. Andrew Murray is the director of …

Qatar is a very small country, having a population of approximately 2.5 million inhabitants, of which 85% are expatriates. Nevertheless, it has proved very ambitious in the last decades, to …

The term “international cultural cooperation” refers to formalised collaborations that involve cultural actors across national boundaries, and aim at disseminating knowledge, culture, and artworks. The actors involved are many and …

This video goes back in history and analyses how arts and culture have been used in the 20th century, with the rise of mass communication, the cold war and eventually …

The term cultural diplomacy designates a wide range of practices that can be implemented in a foreign country, such as that of offering language courses, granting educational scholarships, setting up …

The following educators have collaborated for the production of this course: Prof. Anna Triandafyllidou Anna Triandafyllidou holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University, Toronto, …