International Cultural Relations

The course explores role of culture in contemporary international relations. Various aspects of international cultural relations will include:

1. Basic concepts (civilisation, culture, cultural heritage, cultural identity, cultural policy, cultural diplomacy).

2. Culture as a factor in international cooperation .What is the role of culture in international relation – historically and nowadays?

3. Intellectual debates on cultural international relations of XX/XXI century (Alvin and Heidi Toffler, Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, Samuel Barber, Edward Said)

4. Culture as a factor of international cooperation. International cultural relations in the age of globalisation

5 UNESCO ( evolution, structure, main fields and forms of activities Institutionalisation of international cultural relations in the United Nations system

6. Culture as a factor in international conflict

Cultural heritage during and after the military conflicts

Post-conflict recovery and reconstruction – cultural contexts.

7. Protection of cultural heritage in international law. Selected international instruments

8. International cultural relations in Europe. Council of Europe – main activities in the area of cultural cooperation, selected European conventions on cultural heritage and cultural cooperation. European cultural policy in European Union

9 Culture and foreign policy . Cultural diplomacy „Soft power” in international relations . Culture and national brands Cultural diplomacy - institutions, practice, personalities, examples, sucesses, challenges?

10. Transnational non-state actors in cultural relations Public diplomacy

NGOs, networks, international cultural exchange

MAIN READING

Diana Stelowska (UW), Culture in International Relations. Defining Cultural Diplomacy, in: Polish Journal of Political Science, Vol. 1, Issue 3, 2015 (pdf. attached)

Rajen Harshe, Culture, Identity and International Relations
, in: Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 41, No. 37 (Sep. 16-22, 2006), pp. 3945+3947-3951

Huntington, Samuel P., The Clash of Civilizations?, in "Foreign Affairs", vol. 72, no. 3, Summer 1993, pp. 22–49, Huntington, Samuel P., The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1996 ISBN 0-684-84441-9

"The Clash of Ignorance ", Edward Said's critique of Huntington's 'Clash of Civilizations' theory.http://www.thenation.com/article/clash-ignorance#

"If Not Civilizations, What? Samuel Huntington Responds to His Critics", Foreign Affairs, November/December 1993

Public Diplomacy and Soft Power, by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Vol. 616, Public Diplomacy in a Changing World (Mar., 2008), pp. 94-109

INTERNATIOPANL LAW INSTRUMENTS

Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict with Regulations for the Execution of the Convention, 14 May 1954

Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, 14 November 1970

Convention of the Protection of the World Historical and Natural Heritage, 14 November 1974

International Convention against Doping in Sport, 19 October 2005

Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, 20 October 2005

Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, 17 October 2003

Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, 2 November 2001

BACKGROUND READING AND MATERIALS

(these are selected examples, students will be assigned reading and/or multimedia material for each class) :

BBC Documentary „Civilisation: Is the West History? Part I “ ( based on the book „The West and the Rest” by Nial Ferguson)

Barber, Benjamin, Jihad vs. McWorld", Hardcover: Crown, 1995, ISBN 0-8129-2350-2; Paperback Ballantine Books, 1996, ISBN 0-345-38304-4,

Barber, Benjamin (March 1992). "Jihad vs. McWorld". The Atlantic Monthly

Alvin and Heidi Toffler, The Third Wave (1980) Bantam Books ISBN 0-553-24698-4

Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man. Free Press, 1992. ISBN 0-02-910975-2

READING ON CULTURE DURING CONFLICTS

Dr. Hans Köchler (Insbruck University, Austria) Cultural Diplomacy in a World of Conflict. The Relationship Between Culture and Empire (key note lecture)

https://www.globalresearch.ca/cultural-diplomacy-in-a-world-of-conflict-the-relationship-between-culture-and-empire/5623868

Culture and Conflict in Global Perspective The Cultural Dimensions of Global Conflicts 1945-2007, By Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2010

Protection of cultural property: military manual; 2016

http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/1739/1/Protecting%20Cultural%20Property%20Military%20Manual%20UNESCO%20Blue%20Shield%20246633e.pdf

KNOWLEDGE

K_W05

processes of cooperation, integration and competition in the international environment

K_W03

the essence, specificity and the evolution of institutions functioning in particular areas of international relations with special focus on

political, economic, cultural and military area

K_W11

fundamental dilemmas of contemporary civilisation resulting from globaiisation process

SKILLS

K_U04 u

use advanced information and communication techniques to acquire and process the information and to present the results of his/her own research

K_U07

present in the discussion his/her own position on international problems and critically refer to the opinions of others

COMPETENCIES

K_K01 krytycznego podejścia do posiadanej wiedzy i odbieranych treści w procesie kształcenia i w debatach publicznych

critical approach to the knowledge and received content in learning process and in public debate