Culture and External Relations

Jozef Bátora is associate professor and director at the Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Monika Mokre is senior research fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies and History of Theatre, Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria.

• Introduction: What Role for Culture in External Relations?, Jozef Bátora, Monika Mokre; Part I Universalism Versus Part icularism; Chapter 1 Free Trade by Force: Civilization against Culture in the Great China Debate of 1857, Erik Ringmar; Chapter 2 Our Culture and all the Others: Intercultural and International Relations, Iver B. Neumann; Chapter 3 The Logics of Culture in the Anglosphere, Srdjan Vu?eti?; Part II Boundary Building Versus Boundary Transcendence; Chapter 4 Culture and Collective Identifications, Monika Mokre; Chapter 5 Exclusion and Transversalism: Culture in the EU’s External Relations, Jozef Bátora; Chapter 6 ‘Culture’ in EU–Turkey Relations, Bahar Rumelili, Didem Cakmakli; Part III Policy Aspects; Chapter 7 Abstract Expressionism as a Weapon of the Cold War, Manfred J. Holler, Barbara Klose Ullmann; Chapter 8 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Cultural Policies of and towards Serbia, Dragi?evi? Milena Šeši?; Chapter 9 European Coordination of External Cultural Policies, Emil Brix; conclu Conclusions, Monika Mokre, Jozef Bátora;

'So far, students of culture in international politics have mostly focused on how culture raises boundaries and how cultural differences bring about conflicts. This volume provides a more balanced perspective. While acknowledging its boundary-raising function the authors also examine how culture builds bridges among peoples. This insight makes an important contribution to the debate.' Petr Drulák, Institute of International Relations, Czech Republic 'At a time when practitioners and academics alike seek answers to the question of how "culture" works, or could be put to work, in the politics of the EU, this book revisits the question itself in a more vigorous and critical manner. The outcome is an exciting contribution to a whole range of contemporary theorising: from European Studies to the "aesthetic turn" in International Relations theory.' Alexander Astrov, Central European University, Hungary 'Off the beaten path, this refreshing set of essays makes a strong case for the study of culture, as a broad concept, in European and EU international relations. The book helps to widen the horizon of students of international relations and Europe's role in it, which makes it a most welcome contribution.' Jan Melissen, Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael and Antwerp University, and Co-Editor of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy