Book Diplomacy in the Cultural Cold War

Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72817-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: New Perspectives on the Cold War

Broadly speaking, book diplomacy covers the use of books to achieve certain objectives related to the foreign policy interests of a given country, usually involving state-private partnerships of varying degrees. In this volume, scholars from different disciplines examine in detail how books functioned as tools of “soft power” and cultural diplomacy during the cultural Cold War. This study also introduces a 10-point typology to examine the many forms and practices of Cold War book diplomacy and the diversity of objectives and outcomes that they involved. Looking beyond the Cold War, this volume stresses the continuing importance of books as a distinct form of material culture used to convey information around the world.

Contributors are: Tahoor Ali, Hanna Blum, Deborah Cohn, Cécile Cottenet, Alexander Erokhin, Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam, Musa Igrek, Julia Lin Thompson, Rósa Magnúsdóttir, Christos Mais, Hafiz Abid Masood, Mila Milani, Birgitte Beck Pristed, Giles Scott-Smith, Ilaria Sicari, and Steven W. Witt.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Haddadian-Moghaddam, Esmaeil

Scott-Smith, Giles

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam, Ph.D. (2012), Rovira i Virgili University, is an independent scholar based in Belgium. His most recent project, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, explores the Book Translation Program of the United States Information Agency (USIA) in Iran and Afghanistan. His publications include Literary Translation in Modern Iran: A Sociological Study (Benjamins, 2014).

Giles Scott-Smith, Ph.D. (1998), Lancaster University, is Professor of Transnational Relations and New Diplomatic History at Leiden University, and Dean of Leiden University College. He is one of the organizers of the New Diplomatic History network and founding editor of the network’s publication Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society (Brill). His research covers a broad range of fields around public / cultural diplomacy and citizen diplomats.