Promoting Canadian Studies Abroad - Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy

This volume examines the history and current state of Canadian studies in a number of countries and regions across the world, including Canada's major trading partners. From the mid-1980s until 2012, Canadian studies was seen as an important tool of soft power, increasing awareness of Canadian culture, institutions and history. The abrupt termination in 2012 of the Canadian government's financial support for these activities triggered a debate that is still ongoing about the benefits that may have flowed from this support and whether the decision should be reversed. The contributors to this book focus on the process whereby Canadian studies became institutionalized in their respective countries and on the balance between what might be described as Canadian studies for its own sake versus Canadian studies as a deliberate instrument of cultural diplomacy. 

List of contents

1. Uncertain Embrace: The Rise and Fall of Canadian Studies Abroad as a Tool of Foreign Policy.- 2. Getting on the American Radar Screen: The Growth, Achievements and Limitations of Canadian Studies in the United States.- 3. Down But Not Out: British Academics Resolutely Determined to Explore Canada.- 4. Canadian Studies in France.- 5. Canadian Studies in China: Dividends from a Near-forgotten Age of Hope and Opening.- 6. Canadian Studies in Japan.- 7. Canadian Studies in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and Contemporary Russia.- 8. From Individual Scholarship to Academic Institution: Canadian Studies in the German-Speaking Countries and Cultural Diplomacy.- 9. Canadian Studies in the Nordic Countries.- 10. Lessons Learned.

About the author

Stephen Brooks
is Professor of Political Science at University of Windsor, Canada, and Occasional Lecturer at Sciences Po Lille, France.

Summary

Assesses the early success against the 2012 termination of the Canadian government’s “Understanding Canada” program


Evaluates the implications of the program for Canadian Studies in key research centres abroad


Discusses the role of government support of cultural goals, and its broader implications beyond the Canadian context

Product details

• Assisted by: Stephe Brooks (Editor), Stephen Brooks (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319740263
• ISBN: 978-3-31-974026-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 219 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 250 p. 13 illus., 12 illus. in color.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy; Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; B, Bildungsstrategien und -politik, Educational Policy, Education, International Relations, foreign policy, auseinandersetzen, Political Science and International Studies, Public Administration, International and Comparative Education, Public Policy, Diplomacy, Educational strategies & policy, International Relations Theory, Educational Policy and Politics, Education and state, Comparative education, International education