Culture and International Relations (Explorations in Culture and International History Series)

Combining the perspectives of 18 international scholars from Europe and the United States with a critical discussion of the role of culture in international relations, this volume introduces recent trends in the study of Culture and International History. It systematically explores the cultural dimension of international history, mapping existing approaches and conceptual lenses for the study of cultural factors and thus hopes to sharpen the awareness for the cultural approach to international history among both American and non-American scholars. The first part provides a methodological introduction, explores the cultural underpinnings of foreign policy, and the role of culture in international affairs by reviewing the historiography and examining the meaning of the word culture in the context of foreign relations. In the second part, contributors analyze culture as a tool of foreign policy. They demonstrate how culture was instrumentalized for diplomatic goals and purposes in different historical periods and world regions. The essays in the third part expand the state-centered view and retrace informal cultural relations among nations and peoples. This exploration of non-state cultural interaction focuses on the role of science, art, religion, and tourism. The fourth part collects the findings and arguments of part one, two, and three to define a roadmap for further scholarly inquiry. A group of" commentators" survey the preceding essays, place them into a larger research context, and address the question "Where do we go from here?" The last and fifth part presents a selection of primary sources along with individual comments highlighting a new genre of resources scholars interested in culture and international relations can consult. Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht is Professor of History at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Frank Schumacher is Assistant Professor of North American History at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is the author of Kalter Krieg und Propaganda. Die USA, der Kampf um die Weltmeinung und die ideelle Westbindung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1945-1955 . He has published articles on 19th and 20th century North American diplomatic, military, cultural and environmental history and is currently at work on his second book entitled The American Way of Empire: the United States and the Quest for Imperial Identity, 1880-1920 Combining the perspectives of 18 international scholars from Europe and the United States with a critical discussion of the role of culture in international relations, this volume introduces recent trends in the study of Culture and International History. It systematically explores the cultural dimension of international history, mapping existing approaches and conceptual lenses for the study of cultural factors and thus hopes to sharpen the awareness for the cultural approach to international history among both American and non-American scholars. The first part provides a methodological introduction, explores the cultural underpinnings of foreign policy, and the role of culture in international affairs by reviewing the historiography and examining the meaning of the word culture in the context of foreign relations. In the second part, contributors analyze culture as a tool of foreign policy. They demonstrate how culture was instrumentalized for diplomatic goals and purposes in different historical periods and world regions. The essays in the third part expand the state-centered view and retrace informal cultural relations among nations and peoples. This exploration of non-state cultural interaction focuses on the role of science, art, religion, and tourism. The fourth part collects the findings and arguments of part one, two, and three to define a roadmap for further scholarly inquiry. A group of" commentators" survey the preceding essays, place them into a larger research context, and address the question "Where do we go from here?" The last and fifth part presents a selection of primary sources along with individual comments highlighting a new genre of resources scholars interested in culture and international relations can consult. Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht is Professor of History at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Frank Schumacher is Assistant Professor of North American History at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is the author of __Kalter Krieg und Propaganda. Die USA, der Kampf um die Weltmeinung und die ideelle Westbindung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1945-1955__. He has published articles on 19th and 20th century North American diplomatic, military, cultural and environmental history and is currently at work on his second book entitled __The American Way of Empire: the United States and the Quest for Imperial Identity, 1880-1920__ Content: On the diversity of knowledge and the community of thought: culture and international history / Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht -- The power of culture in international relations / Beate Jahn -- The great derby race: strategies of cultural representation at nineteenth-century world exhibitions / Wolfram Kaiser -- Manliness and "realism": the use of gendered tropes in the debates on the Philippine-American and Vietnam wars / Fabian Hilfrich -- A family affair?: gender, the U.S. information agency, and cold war ideology, 1945-1960 / Laura A. Belmonte -- France and Germany after the great war: businessmen, intellectuals and artists in non-governmental European networks / Guido Müller -- Small Atlantic world: U.S. philanthropy and the expanding international exchange of scholars after 1945 / Oliver Schmidt -- Atlantic alliances: cross-cultural communication and the 1960s student revolution / Philipp Gassert -- Forecasting the future: future studies as international networks of social analysis in the 1960s and 1970s in Western Europe and the United States / Alexander Schmidt-Gernig -- Cultural approaches to international relations: a challenge? / Volker Depkat -- States, international systems, and intercultural transfer: a commentary / Eckart Conze -- "Total culture" and the state-private network: a commentary / Scott Lucas -- Gender, tropes, and images: a commentary / Marc Frey -- Internationalizing ideologies: a commentary / Seth Fein -- The invention of state and diplomacy: the first political testament of Frederick III, elector of Brandenburg (1698) / Volker Depkat -- The rat race for progress: a Punch cartoon of the opening of the 1851 Crystal Palace exhibition / Wolfram Kaiser -- Race and imperialism: an essay from the Chicago Broad ax / Fabian Hilfrich -- A document from the Harvard international summer school / Scott Lucas -- Max Lerner's "Germany has a foreign policy" / Thomas Reuther -- Excerpt from Johan Galtung's "On the future of the international system" / Alexander Schmidt-Gernig -- The "children and war" virtual forum: voices of youth and international relations / Marie Thorsten. Combining the perspectives of 18 international scholars from Europe and the United States with a critical discussion of the role of culture in international relations, this volume introduces recent trends in the study of Culture and International History. It systematically explores the cultural dimension of international history, mapping existing approaches and conceptual lenses for the study of cultural factors and thus hopes to sharpen the awareness for the cultural approach to international history among both American and non-American scholars.
Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht is Heisenberg fellow teaching in the History Department at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Her study, Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945-1955, won several awards in diplomatic history.
Frank Schumacher is Assistant Professor of North American History at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He has published articles on 19th and 20th century North American diplomatic, military, cultural and environmental history and is currently at work on his second book entitled The American Way of Empire: the United States and the Quest for Imperial Identity,1880-1920. Combining the perspectives of 18 international scholars from Europe and the United States with a critical discussion of the role of culture in international relations, this volume introduces recent trends in the study of Culture and International History. It systematically explores the cultural dimension of international history, mapping existing approaches and conceptual lenses for the study of cultural factors and thus hopes to sharpen the awareness for the cultural approach to international history among both American and non-American scholars. Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht is Heisenberg fellow teaching in the History Department at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitt Frankfurt am Main. Her study, Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945-1955, won several awards in diplomatic history. Frank Schumacher is Assistant Professor of North American History at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He has published articles on 19th and 20th century North American diplomatic, military, cultural and environmental history and is currently at work on his second book entitled The American Way of Empire: the United States and the Quest for Imperial Identity,1880-1920. Culture and International History 3 Table of Contents 5 Illustrations 8 Editors' Preface 9 Contributors 10 Part 1 15 Introduction 17 Chapter 1 41 Part 2 57 Chapter 2 59 Chapter 3 74 Chapter 4 93 Part 3 109 Chapter 5 111 Chapter 6 129 Chapter 7 149 Chapter 8 171 Part 4 187 Chapter 9 189 Chapter 10 212 Chapter 11 220 Chapter 12 229 Chapter 13 235 Part 5 245 Chapter 14 247 Chapter 15 257 Chapter 16 264 Chapter 17 272 Chapter 18 278 Chapter 19 287 Chapter 20 296 Untitled 303 Historians from Germany, Britain, the US, and Canada demonstrate the merger between international history and cultural studies in terms of both theory and methodology. They sample topics and sources from the early modern period to the present, and trace research trends and debates within Europe and