Table of Contents

1 Caterina Carta, Introduction: Cultural Diplomacy in Europe: Between Domestic and International Arenas.- PART I. Setting up the institutional machinery: tuning the different voices of European Cultural Diplomacy.- 2 Richard Higgott, EU Cultural Diplomacy: A Contextual Analysis of Constraints and Opportunities.- 3 Stuart MacDonald and Erik Vlaeminck, Culture, Language and Strategy: Definitions and   Discourse in the EU’s Strategic framework for Culture in External Relations.- 4 Caterina Carta and Angel Badillo, National ways to Cultural Diplomacy in Europe.- 5 Riccardo Trobbiani and Lina Kirjazovaite, EU Cultural Relations with the MENA.- 6 Silviu Piros and Joachim Koops, Capacity building in higher education as a catalyst for EU education diplomacy.- PART II. The role of Intra-European Cultural Diplomacy in the age of populisms.- 7 Richard Higgott and Virginia Proud, ‘The Populist Nationalist Zeitgeist’ and the Limits of European Cultural Diplomacy.- 8 Virginia Proud, Culture Under Populism; a nationalist agenda in an EU context.- 9 Caterina Carta and Eleonora Belfiore, ‘Reaching across the fault lines?’: The role of Cultural Diplomacy in post-Brexit Europe.- PART III. Perspectives on the future.- 10 Riccardo Trobbiani and Andrea Pavon-Guinea, Navigating Uncertainty: The Future of the EU cultural relations.- 11 Caterina Carta and Richard Higgott, Conclusion: Considerations on the strategic deployment of culture in Europe and beyond.

About the Author

Caterina Carta is Associate Professor of International Relations at Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Public Diplomacy.

Richard Higgott is Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick, UK, and Research Professor at the Institute for European Studies (IES) and Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy at Vesalius College (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.