In this respect the student dimension to British cultural diplomacy of the mid-1930s combined elements of cultural internationalism with the pursuit of national interest.
Following the Great War, both countries tapped into their academic capital to pursue very different visions of the post-war order; that is either to enforce (in the case of France) or undo (in the case of Germany) the provisions of the Versailles peace settlement.
This event was designed to boost Hungary’s international image as part of an ambitious cultural diplomatic campaign led by the Hungarian government in the 1930s.
...the cultural treaties Mussolini signed in February 1935 applied state power to international cultural exchange, and mobilised the idea of ‘culture’ itself, in ways that were new – and that would prove influential long after his fascist regime had fallen.
As the expansion of Spanish culture in interwar Europe shows, however, state efforts were not the only means of success for cultural promotion abroad.
PEN’s 1927 charter encapsulated both the tensions between and the interrelatedness of nationalism and internationalism which permeated the political and cultural spheres in the interwar period.
How does a country project a certain image of itself? What place have the advertising professions had in the history of cultural diplomacy? How have small countries attempted to attract the attention of foreign publics? Our research seeks to answer these questions, and the Swedish national pavilions at the world’s fairs in Brussels 1935, Paris 1937 and New York 1939 provide a very rich case study.
My article tells the story of how Germany and Poland cooperated on a common summer camp exchange for each other’s borderland children from Upper Silesia between 1924 and 1939.
most of the core practices of modern cultural diplomacy emerged in a period of desperate military and economic danger: the period between the world wars that E. H. Carr famously called ‘the twenty years’ crisis’.
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