Soft Power, the ‘Special Relationship’ and the Roots of Anglo-American Cultural Diplomacy in Iran

Independent of each other, though contemporaneous, the Anglo-American occupiers of Germany and the newly founded United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization employed culture to foster greater intercultural and international understanding in 1945. Both enterprises separately saw culture as offering a means of securing the peace in the long term. This article compares the stated intentions and activities of the Anglo-American occupiers and UNESCO vis-à-vis transforming morals and public opinion in Germany for the better after World War II. It reconceptualizes the mobilization of culture to transform Germany through engaging theories of cultural diplomacy and propaganda. It argues that rather than merely engaging in propaganda in the negative sense, elements of these efforts can also be viewed as propaganda in the earlier, morally neutral sense of the term, despite the fact that clear geopolitical aims lay at the heart of the cultural activities of both the occupiers and UNESCO.

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Reagan and Thatcher's Special Relationship

10.3366/edinburgh/9780748686063.001.0001 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Sally-Ann Treharne

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

Special Relationship ◽

Pivotal Moments ◽

Political Relationships ◽

Latin American Region ◽

The Us ◽

Anglo American ◽

Elite Interviews ◽

Personal Diplomacy ◽

The Cold War

Reagan and Thatcher’s Special Relationship offers a unique insight into one of the most controversial political relationships in recent history. An insightful and original study, it provides a new regionally focused approach to the study of Anglo-American relations. The Falklands War, the US invasion of Grenada, the Anglo-Guatemalan dispute over Belize and the US involvement in Nicaragua are vividly reconstructed as Latin American crises that threatened to overwhelm a renewal in US-UK relations in the 1980s. Reagan and Thatcher’s efforts to normalise relations, both during and after the crises, reveal a mutual desire to strengthen Anglo-American ties and to safeguard individual foreign policy objectives whilst cultivating a close personal and political bond that was to last well beyond their terms in office. This ground-breaking reappraisal analyses pivotal moments in their shared history by drawing on the extensive analysis of recently declassified documents while elite interviews reveal candid recollections by key protagonists providing an alternative vantage point from which to assess the contentious ‘Special Relationship’. Sally-Ann Treharne offers a compelling look into the role personal diplomacy played in overcoming obstacles to Anglo-American relations emanating from the turbulent Latin American region in the final years of the Cold War.

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Brothers Across the Ocean: British Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’ 1900-1905, by Iestyn AdamsBrothers Across the Ocean: British Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’ 1900-1905, by Iestyn Adams. Library of International Relations series. London, Tauris Academic Studies, 2005. 266 pp. $47.50 US (cloth).

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.41.3.634 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 634-635

Author(s):

Greg Kennedy

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

International Relations ◽

Special Relationship ◽

British Foreign Policy ◽

Anglo American

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The ‘special relationship’: Anglo-American relations since 1945

International Affairs ◽

10.2307/2619688 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 63 (4) ◽

pp. 666-667

Author(s):

Nigel Clive

Keyword(s):

Special Relationship ◽

Anglo American

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Priorities in internationalization of the Japan’s higher education system of the state level

POWER AND ADMINISTRATION IN THE EAST OF RUSSIA ◽

10.22394/1818-4049-2021-97-4-28-38 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 97 (4) ◽

pp. 28-38

Author(s):

Yu. A. Lamasheva ◽

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Education System ◽

Soft Power ◽

Cultural Diplomacy ◽

State Level ◽

Internationalization Of Higher Education ◽

Mutual Understanding ◽

Skilled Migration ◽

Higher Education System

Referring to four strategies of internationalization of higher education, suggested by the Organization for economic cooperation and development, Japan’s strategy is traditionally called mutual understanding approach, aiming mainly at the cultural diplomacy and spreading “soft power” around the globe. However, in modern Japan other strategies may become more important, such as skilled migration approach or capacity building approach. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the reasons for different strategies in internationalization of higher education in Japan. It is argued that both skilled migration approach and capacity building approach are implemented, while the revenue-generating approach is not.

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