Resources- IJCP

The International Journal of Cultural Policy was established in 1993 and is a pre-eminent journal in its field. It has an extensive international readership and addresses itself to all those with a serious intellectual interest in how and why different agents attempt to work on the cultural practices and values of individuals and societies.

Publications on Cultural Diplomacy in a Alphabetical Order

Ahearne, J. (2018) ‘International recognition regimes and the projection of France’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(6), pp. 696–709. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1472591.

Albro, R. (2015) ‘The disjunction of image and word in US and Chinese soft power projection’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 21(4), pp. 382–399. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1042471.

Ang, I., Isar, Y.R. and Mar, P. (2015) ‘Cultural diplomacy: beyond the national interest?’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 21(4), pp. 365–381. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1042474.

Aslan Ozgul, B. et al. (2022) ‘Shakespeare Lives on Twitter: cultural diplomacy in the digital age’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 28(2), pp. 204–220. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.1901892.

Bennett, O. (2017) ‘Special issue on cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations (1)’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(6), pp. 659–659. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2017.1375480.

Bennett, O. (2018) ‘Special issue on cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations (2)’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(6), pp. 695–695. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1536126.

Bennett, O. (2019) ‘Special issue on cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations (3)’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 25(7), pp. 829–830. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2019.1688797.

Bennett, O. (2020) ‘Special issue on cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations (4)’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 26(7), pp. 867–868. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2020.1854238.

Biltekin, N. (2020) ‘Unofficial ambassadors: Swedish women in the United States and the making of non-state cultural diplomacy’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 26(7), pp. 959–972. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2020.1823975.

Bisping, S. (2022) ‘From aims to results: justifying and implementing Japanese cultural policies in Southeast Asia’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 28(4), pp. 461–475. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.1967942.

Carter, D. (2015) ‘Living with instrumentalism: the academic commitment to cultural diplomacy’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 21(4), pp. 478–493. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1042470.

Clarke, D. (2016) ‘Theorising the role of cultural products in cultural diplomacy from a Cultural Studies perspective’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 22(2), pp. 147–163. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2014.958481.

Clarke, D., Cento Bull, A. and Deganutti, M. (2017) ‘Soft power and dark heritage: multiple potentialities’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(6), pp. 660–674. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2017.1355365.

Clerc, L. and Valaskivi, K. (2018) ‘Propaganda rebranded? Finland’s international communication from the Kantine committee to the Mission for Finland report’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(6), pp. 773–785. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1533004.

Collins, N. and Bekenova, K. (2017) ‘European cultural diplomacy: diaspora relations with Kazakhstan’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(6), pp. 732–750. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2017.1343309.

Dâmaso, M. (2018) ‘From the cultural and foreign policies of western European far-right parties to the European Union’s 2015–2018 Work Plan for Culture – identifying and opposing nativism’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(6), pp. 811–825. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1526927.

‘Editorial Board’ (2017) International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(6), p. ebi-ebi. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2017.1387848.

Eggeling, K.A. (2017) ‘Cultural diplomacy in Qatar: between “virtual enlargement”, national identity construction and elite legitimation’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(6), pp. 717–731. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2017.1308505.

Enverga III, M.R. and Tangco, M.Y.A. (2018) ‘Cine Europa: behind the scenes of a collaborative cultural diplomacy initiative in the Philippines’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(6), pp. 826–839. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2017.1420790.

Fedyushina, A. and Jones, C. (no date) ‘Brokering arts to build cross-cultural relations: how strength and embedded relations influence outcomes’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, pp. 1–20. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2023.2202726.

Figueira, C. (2014) ‘Cultural diplomacy and cultural imperialism: European perspective(s)’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 20(4), pp. 513–515. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2013.817401.

García Leiva, M.T. (2017) ‘Cultural diversity and free trade: the case of the EU-Canada agreement’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(6), pp. 765–781. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1119131.

Grincheva, N. (no date) ‘The past and future of cultural diplomacy’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, pp. 1–20. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2023.2183949.

Hølleland, H. and Phelps, J. (2019) ‘Becoming a conservation “good power”: Norway’s early World Heritage history’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 25(7), pp. 886–903. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1431223.

Huttunen, M. (2017) ‘De-demonising Japan? Transitioning from war to peace through Japan’s cinematic post-war cultural diplomacy in UNESCO’s Orient project 1957–1959’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(6), pp. 751–764. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2017.1375479.

Isar, Y.R. (2015) ‘“Culture in EU external relations”: an idea whose time has come?’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 21(4), pp. 494–508. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1042472.

Isar, Y.R. (2017) ‘Cultural diplomacy: India does it differently’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(6), pp. 705–716. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2017.1343310.

Iwabuchi, K. (2015) ‘Pop-culture diplomacy in Japan: soft power, nation branding and the question of “international cultural exchange”’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 21(4), pp. 419–432. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1042469.

Jiang, M. (2021) ‘Translation as cultural diplomacy: a Chinese perspective’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 27(7), pp. 892–904. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.1872554.

Jurková, J. (2015) ‘Still searching for a cultural diplomacy’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 21(4), pp. 509–511. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1042466.

Kaiser, W. and Storeide, A.H. (2018) ‘International organizations and Holocaust remembrance: from Europe to the world’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(6), pp. 798–810. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1433667.

Kang, H. (2015) ‘Contemporary cultural diplomacy in South Korea: explicit and implicit approaches’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 21(4), pp. 433–447. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1042473.

Kantek, J., Veljanova, I. and Onnudottir, H. (2021) ‘Constructing Hungarian “good-will ambassadors”: the collaborative soft power efforts of Hungary’s Balassi Institute and the Hungarian community in Australia’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 27(7), pp. 920–935. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2020.1858068.

Kiel, C. (2020) ‘Chicken dance (off): competing cultural diplomacy in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 26(7), pp. 973–987. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2020.1776269.

Kim, J. and Lee, M. (2018) ‘Nation branding or marketization?: K-Classic and Korean classical musicians in an era of globalization’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(6), pp. 756–772. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1529761.

Marinaccio, J. (2020) ‘Domestic and bilateral challenges to building relationality in cultural diplomacy: Tuvalu’s performative cultural diplomacy in Taiwan’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 26(7), pp. 913–928. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2019.1704743.

Minnaert, T. (2014) ‘Footprint or fingerprint: international cultural policy as identity policy’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 20(1), pp. 99–113. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2012.722997.

Mkhoyan, A. (2017) ‘Soft power, Russia and the former Soviet states: a case study of Russian language and education in Armenia*’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(6), pp. 690–704. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2016.1251426.

Mozaffari, A. and Akbar, A. (2023) ‘Iran’s soft power in Azerbaijan: shifting cultural dynamics in the post-Soviet era’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 29(6), pp. 667–685. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2022.2135706.

Nakano, R. and Zhu, Y. (2020) ‘Heritage as soft power: Japan and China in international politics’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 26(7), pp. 869–881. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2020.1845322.

Nisbett, M. (2013) ‘New perspectives on instrumentalism: an empirical study of cultural diplomacy’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 19(5), pp. 557–575. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2012.704628.

Nisbett, M. (2019) ‘The history of United States cultural diplomacy: 1770 to the present day, by Michael L. Krenn’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 25(7), pp. 946–948. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2019.1598399.

van Noort, C. (2018) ‘Brics issue-narrative on culture: strategic or trivial?’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(6), pp. 786–797. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1459589.

Ociepka, B. (2021) ‘Cultural diplomacy as an external voice of cultural policy. The case of Poland’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 27(2), pp. 233–245. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.1873965.

Park, S.M. (2011) ‘The Takarazuka Girls’ Revue in the West: public–private relations in the cultural diplomacy of wartime Japan’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 17(1), pp. 18–38. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286630903456869.

Paschalidis, G. (2009) ‘Exporting national culture: histories of Cultural Institutes abroad’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 15(3), pp. 275–289. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286630902811148.

Pavlovsky, B. (2019) ‘Austrian foreign cultural policy: Europeanization through the prism of national interests’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 25(7), pp. 933–945. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1549239.

Podoler, G. (2014) ‘Enter the “Far East”: Korean culture in early South Korea–Israel relations’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 20(5), pp. 519–535. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2013.865728.

Ratzlaff, A. (2023) ‘Birds of a feather?: Lessons on U.S. cultural diplomacy from Walt Disney during the Good Neighbor Policy’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 29(4), pp. 415–430. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2022.2078317.

Rindzevičiūtė, E. (2017) ‘Cold War modernists: art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(6), pp. 782–784. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2017.1317247.

Rius Ulldemolins, J. and Zamorano, M.M. (2015) ‘Spain’s nation branding project Marca España and its cultural policy: the economic and political instrumentalization of a homogeneous and simplified cultural image’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 21(1), pp. 20–40. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2013.877456.

Rodríguez Morató, A. and Zamorano, M.M. (2018) ‘Introduction: cultural policies in Ibero-America at the beginning of the XXI century’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(5), pp. 565–576. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1514036.

Rösler, B. (2015) ‘The case of Asialink’s arts residency program: towards a critical cosmopolitan approach to cultural diplomacy’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 21(4), pp. 463–477. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1042467.

Spanou, G. (2019) ‘Makarios cultural diplomacy legacy in the republic of Cyprus’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 25(7), pp. 917–932. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2019.1578759.

Stone, D. and Douglas, E. (2018) ‘Advance diaspora diplomacy in a networked world’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(6), pp. 710–723. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1495712.

Tang, S. (2021) ‘Scholarship diplomacy and India’s Neighbourhood First strategy’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 27(7), pp. 905–919. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.1879797.

Vargas, C., Sarmento, C. and Oliveira, P. (2017) ‘Cultural networks between Portugal and Brazil: a postcolonial review’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(3), pp. 300–311. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1056175.

Villanueva R., C. (2018) ‘Theorizing cultural diplomacy all the way down: a cosmopolitan constructivist discourse from an Ibero-American perspective’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(5), pp. 681–694. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1514033.

Vos, C. (2017) ‘European integration through “soft conditionality”. The contribution of culture to EU enlargement in Southeast Europe’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(6), pp. 675–689. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2016.1276577.

Wang, S. (2018) ‘Museum diplomacy: exploring the Sino-German Museum Forum and beyond’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(6), pp. 724–740. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1487414.

Webber, N. (2020) ‘The Britishness of “British Video Games”’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 26(2), pp. 135–149. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1448804.

Whitaker, A. et al. (2021) ‘Art, antiquities, and blockchain: new approaches to the restitution of cultural heritage’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 27(3), pp. 312–329. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2020.1765163.

Winter, T. (2020) ‘Silk road diplomacy: Geopolitics and histories of connectivity’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 26(7), pp. 898–912. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2020.1765164.

Winter, T. (2022) ‘Geocultural diplomacy’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 28(4), pp. 385–399. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.1967943.

Yu, M. (2018) ‘Approaches to the recovery of Chinese cultural objects lost overseas: a case study from 1949 to 2016’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(6), pp. 741–755. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2017.1335720.

Zamorano, M.M. and Bonet, L. (2018) ‘The reshaping of Ibero-American cultural diplomacy in the beginning of the XXI century: the declining of the Spanish historical hegemony?’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 24(5), pp. 664–680. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1514035.

Zhang, T.Y. (2016) ‘Bending the body for China: the uses of acrobatics in Sino-US diplomacy during the Cold War’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 22(2), pp. 123–146. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2014.956665.

Zhu, B. and Li, X. (no date) ‘Transformational governance framework for institutions of cultural diplomacy: the case of the Chinese Confucius Institute’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, pp. 1–20. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2023.2227855.

Zhu, B. and Wyszomirski, M.J. (2023) ‘Designing cultural diplomacy policy: structuring a flagship mechanism’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 29(5), pp. 558–575. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2022.2092102.

Zhu, Y. (2022) ‘China’s “new cultural diplomacy” in international broadcasting: branding the nation through CGTN Documentary’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 28(6), pp. 671–683. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.2022651.