European Cultural Diplomacy and the Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919–1939
In the new special issue of Contemporary European History, co-editors Benjamin Martin and Elisabeth Piller bring together a collection of cutting-edge research exploring this conundrum. The issue’s nine articles probe the relationship between Europe’s interwar crisis and the emergence of modern cultural diplomacy by exploring cases drawn from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Soviet Union and Sweden. Taken together, these allow us to see that interwar Europe was a laboratory for the testing of new ‘cultural’ tools in international politics – one that produced ideas and practices that have continued to shape diplomatic practice to this day. Read the full introduction here
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British Cultural Diplomacy and Overseas Students: The British Council’s Students Committee, 1935–1939
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- In this respect the student dimension to British cultural diplomacy of the mid-1930s combined elements of cultural internationalism with the pursuit of national...
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Cultural Diplomacy and Europe's Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919–1939: Introduction
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- Contemporary European History / Volume 30 / Issue 2 / May 2021
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- 26 March 2021, pp. 149-163
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The ‘First Exhibition of Russian Art’ in Berlin: The Transnational Origins of Bolshevik Cultural Diplomacy, 1921–1922
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- 23 March 2021, pp. 164-180
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‘Extended Arm of Reich Foreign Policy’? Literary Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy and the First German PEN Club in the Weimar Republic
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- 28 January 2021, pp. 181-197
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Weak State, Powerful Culture: The Emergence of Spanish Cultural Diplomacy, 1914–1936
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- 05 March 2021, pp. 198-213
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Gain Weight, Have Fun, Discover the Motherland: The German–Polish Children's Summer Camp Exchange and Interwar Era Revisionism
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- 10 December 2020, pp. 214-230
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The Race for Revision and Recognition: Interwar Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy in Context
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- 19 March 2021, pp. 231-247
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The Transatlantic Dynamics of European Cultural Diplomacy: Germany, France and the Battle for US Affections in the 1920s
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- 05 April 2021, pp. 248-264
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A ‘Sound Investment’? British Cultural Diplomacy and Overseas Students: The British Council's Students Committee, 1935–1939
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- 11 May 2021, pp. 265-283
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A ‘Swedish Offensive’ at the World's Fairs: Advertising, Social Reformism and the Roots of Swedish Cultural Diplomacy, 1935–1939
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- 10 December 2020, pp. 284-300
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The Birth of the Cultural Treaty in Europe's Age of Crisis
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- 19 March 2021, pp. 301-317
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