Cultural Diplomacy in Southern Europe

Spain, Portugal and Greece in the Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-03211-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

This book offers a comprehensive overview of how culture, science, technology and academic activity functioned as instruments of cultural diplomacy and soft power in Spain, Portugal and Greece during the interwar and Cold War periods.

Cultural Diplomacy in Southern Europe is particularly timely due to the growing academic focus on the role of culture and science as relevant actors in countries’ diplomatic strategies, even as the current geopolitical climate appears to be altering the roles of traditional international actors. The idea of a common Europe as an area of freedom and progress has been founded on Europe’s reputation as a centre of culture and knowledge. At a time when social tensions are fuelling attempts to redefine the European identity, this book explores the potential at both the national and international levels for science and culture to serve as political tools, drivers of economic and social modernisation, and sources of power.

This volume will interest scholars and students of the History of Cultural and Scientific Diplomacy, 20th-Century European History, and International Relations.

Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA) license.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Presas I Puig, Albert

Janué i Miret, Marició

March, Eva

Pacheco Castelao, Jose-Miguel

Pacheco Castelao, José-Miguel

Janue I Miret, Maricio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part 1: Participation in Transnational Networks in the Interwar Period  1. ‘Blood and Culture’: Spanish Expatriates as Cultural Diplomacy Actors, 1921–1936 2. Pharmaceutical Industry, Malaria Research, Cultural Diplomacy: The 1925 Barcelona Medical Mission to Germany 3. Stateless Nations and Cultural Diplomacy in the Interwar Period: The Catalan Art Exhibitions Abroad 4. Centres, Peripheries and Romanesque Art: Josep Puig i Cadafalch and the First International Congresses of Art History 5. Science Diplomacy in a Climate of Nationalism: Archaeology in Portugal between the World Wars  Part 2: Flirting with Fascism and National Socialism  6. Cultural Diplomacy as a Political Resource for Francoist Spain in its Relations with Nazi Germany 7. Health Policies in Early Francoist International Diplomacy 8. Flirting with Authoritarianism and Fascism through Technology and Science: Ioannis Metaxas’ Dictatorship and Technology and Science as Cultural Diplomacy  Part 3: Integration in the West during the Cold War  9. Lost in Translation: Ramón Ortiz Translates John von Neumann 10. Spain and the American Space Race during the Cold War 11. The Cold War and Educational Exchanges: The Origins of the Fulbright Program in Portugal 12. Towards the Limelight: Portuguese Cultural Diplomacy in the Cold War Period 13. Greece and Its Image as a Western Country: Cultural Diplomacy in the Early Cold War 14. Cold War Techno-Diplomacy and the Making of the Telecom State in Greece from 1945 to 1974  Part 4: Cross-Sectional Analysis  15. Spanish Science Diplomacy as Soft Power during the Twentieth Century: A Permanent Discontinuity or a Continuous Failure? 16. Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Frameworks and Dynamics of Portuguese Scientific and Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century 17. Science Diplomacy as a Framework for Educational and Research Agendas

Über Autor(innen)

Marició Janué i Miret is Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Humanities of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Her current research interests focus on the role of culture in Spanish-German relations in the period of National Socialism and on the re-establishment of Spanish-German cultural diplomacy in the postwar period.

Eva March is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Humanities at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Her current research addresses cultural transfers and methodological issues related to patterns of artistic reception and the ideological and political dimensions of art exhibitions in the first half of the twentieth century.

Jose-Miguel Pacheco Castelao is Professor (retired) of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a member of the Royal Canary Academy of Sciences. He has published in Archive for the History of Exact Science, Science in Context, Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática, among others.

Albert Presas i Puig is Associate Professor at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. His research career has been mainly focused on the study of knowledge transfer mechanisms from the generating countries to countries located on the scientific periphery and the role of science and technology in international settings.