ISSUE: 3/2025
- Volume 29
- Number 3
- 2025
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Studia Europejskie –
Studies in European Affairs
ISSN: 1428-149X
e-ISSN: 2719-3780
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Publication co-financed by Ministry of Science and Higher Education pursuant to the Regulation of the Minister of Education and Science of 3 August 2021 (Journal of Laws of 2021, item 1514) on the “Development of Scientific Journals” programme.
Publikacja dofinansowana przez Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego na podstawie rozporządzenia Ministra Edukacji i Nauki z 3 sierpnia 2021 r. (Dz. U. z 2021 r. poz. 1514) w sprawie programu „Rozwój czasopism naukowych”.
Publication co-financed by the University of Warsaw within the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme.
Czasopismo otrzymało dofinasowanie w ramach Programu „Inicjatywa Doskonałości – Uczelnia Badawcza”.
Cosmopolitan, Promotional, or Propagandistic? Cultural Diplomacy at a Time of War
Abstract
The objective of this study is to discuss developments in the cultural diplomacy (hereafter: CD) of Austria, Germany, Poland, and Ukraine in response to Russian aggression against Ukraine since 2014. While adopting a comparative approach, the study begins with a taxonomy of cultural diplomacy based on the objectives of the foreign policy it is intended to serve, followed by a discussion of the four cases. The hypothesis posits that models of cultural diplomacy in Europe have been influenced not only by the international environment – specifically the war in Ukraine as an external shock – but also by domestic factors. The study focused on the period 2014–2022 constitutes a meta-analysis, while the part covering 2022–2024 follows a cultural diplomacy analysis (CDA), beginning with an institutional approach and proceeding to an examination of discourses of cultural diplomacy in the selected countries. The findings indicate that the selected cases represent cosmopolitan and promotional models of cultural diplomacy. The war has contributed to the shrinking of spaces for dialogical forms and has altered the geography of cultural diplomacy.
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DOI: 10.33067/SE.3.2025.2
Language: English
Pages: 23-36
How to Cite:
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Ociepka, B. (2025) "Cosmopolitan, Promotional, or Propagandistic? Cultural Diplomacy at a Time of War". Studia Europejskie – Studies in European Affairs, 3/2025, pp. 23-36. DOI: 10.33067/SE.3.2025.2