EAN: 9783031122071

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN SERIES IN GLOBAL PUBLIC DIPL...

This open access book explores the organization and evolution of Finland's Cold War cultural
diplomacy (1945-1975) as the basis for a reflection on the country's foreign relations  the
link between culture and politics  small states' autonomy during the Cold War  and the porosity
of the East-West divide. The book offers a historical survey of the development of Finland's
cultural diplomacy as part of the Finnish state's foreign activities. In its empirical parts 
it focuses on archives drawn from the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of
Education in order to explain Finland's cultural diplomacy as the result of the country's
foreign policy orientations  interactions between domestic and foreign policy  and the
expansion of state activities in the artistic  educational  and cultural sectors. Various
reflections and reports on foreign cultural relations highlight the role of identity concerns 
cultural relations  geopolitics and economic imperatives in the development of a specifically
Finnish cultural diplomacy. Furthermore  the book focuses on specific aspects and events 
considering for instance the organization and evolutions of Finland's cultural relations with
the USSR  the role of cultural treaties  academic exchanges and scientific cooperation 
cultural exports and the marketization of culture  overlaps between cultural relations and high
politics.

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