Cultural Diplomacy
Cultural Diplomacy

Summary/Abstract: In the case of internet sources for research, over 90% of the available material is reporting activities based on American initiatives, one of the few continental references being John Holden’s DEMOS publication. Moreover, on an institutional level, the dominant and explicit reference to a place of cultural diplomacy training is the Cultural Diplomacy Institute in Berlin (which, in fact, is also a US initiative). This is not surprising since cultural diplomacy is considered to have been shaped during the Cold War by US actions meant to contain the Soviet Union’s expanding influence in Europe (Donfried, Gienow-Hecht, 2010; Bu, 1999). However, on international scale, things are developing gradually, by the emergence of BA or MA programs in the cultural diplomacy field, as well as conferences and workshops on these matters. Also, in the same manner, on the Romanian internet channels, few references are made regarding this particular subject, showing that the domain is seriously underdeveloped/yet to be developed.

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