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Globalization and Cultural Diplomacy

Author: Feigenbaum, Harvey B.

Publication Year: 2001

Media Type: Report

Summary:

The Center for Arts and Culture has published a year-long series of issue papers entitled Art, Culture, and the National Agenda to demonstrate how public policy decisions affect our nation's cultural life. This paper, the fourth in the series, looks at trade, cultural diplomacy, and foreign policy implications of globalization.

Abstract:

The Center for Arts and Culture has published a year-long series of issue papers entitled Art, Culture, and the National Agenda to demonstrate how public policy decisions affect our nation's cultural life. This paper, the fourth in the series, looks at trade, cultural diplomacy, and foreign policy implications of globalization.

Among the papers findings are:

  1. The United States should be less adamant about opposing cultural exceptions to free trade. The technologies of direct broadcast satellites and digital compression tend to moderate or even blunt the impact of cultural protectionism.
  2. America long-term international competitiveness in the Knowledge Economy will depend on improved education, modernized regulation of intellectual property and knowledge monopolies, and micro-financing of small, creative enterprises.
  3. State Department programs in support of educational and cultural affairs, on the one hand, and public diplomacy, on the other, must be kept carefully distinct, even though they are fundamentally compatible. Furthermore, both cultural exchanges and public diplomacy need the resources and administrative muscle to carry out their particular mandates. Cultural offices abroad need to be tailored to fit each countrys specific situation and be staffed with Americans of high achievement.

CONTENTS

  • Art, Culture, and the National Agenda.
  • Executive Summary.
  • Globalization and Cultural Diplomacy.
  • The Impact of Globalization on Culture.
  • Policy Proposals.
    Recommendations.
  • Notes.
  • Works Cited.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: International, Globalization

ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Series Title: Issue Paper: Art, Culture, and the National Agenda

Edition:

URL:

SBN/ISSN:

Pages: 53

Resources: Document

PUBLISHER INFORMATION

Name: Center for Arts and Culture

Website URL: http://www.AmericansForTheArts.org