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Tunisia: at a glance
Get PDFTunisia is the only democracy to have emerged from the Arab Spring in 2011. It aims to build a strong national identity grounded in democracy and decentralization principles stated in the new 2014 Constitution. Tunisia’s ECP, despite an over-reliance on public funding, is carried out mostly by non-state actors. In addition, Tunisia is increasingly being integrated into a net- work of cultural and educational exchange by the European Union. Today, the country is in a state of political uncertainty and faces high migration of talents. Therefore, connecting with the diaspora is also a crucial component of its ECP
Japan: at a glance
Get PDFJapan’s public diplomacy revolves around correcting misconceptions perceived abroad, including permeating cultural soft power through exchange and branding the “Cool Japan” image. By positioning itself as a peace-loving and democratic country, Japan creates a more favorable environment for its diplomacy and foreign polic
Germany's Soft Power 2030: Scenarios for an Unsettled World
Get PDFThis foresight project focuses on a key question for the future of Germany’s foreign policy: Given changing geopolitical and economic relationships among major powers, what possible futures can be foreseen soft power approaches or external cultural policy (ECP) in terms of narratives, strategies, goals, policies, and programmatic activities? To address this question, we place Germany in a comparative framework of international relations that considers soft power approaches in the context of prevailing geopolitical and economic relations between the European Union, the United States of America, and the People’s Republic of China as well as other global players. In each case, we consider soft power approaches relative to hard and sharp power options. The time frame for the future scenarios is the year 2030, anticipating likely and potential developments and events from 2022 onward. The scenarios are based on a series of brainstorming and validation sessions, literature reviews, personal interviews, and an online survey fielded among experts and representatives of leading institutions. We identified two major drivers of future developments: the state of the world economy and the state of the world’s security situation. Exploring the interaction between these two drivers yielded four distinct scenarios
Realities, challenges, visions?
No full textChanging realities, global power shifts, and societal upheavals are resulting in new tasks and challenges for Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy. In an age of globalisation, digitisation, and growing nationalism, there is a particular need to inquire into the notion of responsibility and available spaces of action: How can strategies and networks for successful international and intercultural cooperation be drawn up, and what role do civil society actors play
Biennial as seismograph
Get PDFBesides providing platforms for dialogues on global art and cultural discourse, biennials are highly conducive to the decentralisation of the art world. It goes without saying that each biennial's context, in other words its specific geopolitical framework conditions, or-ganisational forms and promotional structures as well as local actors, plays a decisive part. This study, by way of example, will focus primarily on recently founded biennials in the so-called "Global South” and, in this respect, particularly on the African continent with the objective of identifying both trends and specific needs. Therefore, the funding of bien-nials worldwide as, for example, undertaken by the European Union or cultural institutes of European countries will be studied and contextualised in order to delineate current trends as well as possible promotion activities within the scope of Germany's foreign cul-tural and educational policy as well as international cooperation efforts
Learning from the Pandemic (Summary Document)
Get PDFThe Covid-19 pandemic has hit the creative and cultural sectors hard; it has led to further risks and restrictions for artists, particularly for those who were already vulnerable, marginalized, or persecuted. It also hindered opportunities for cross border mobility and collaboration, thereby creating major obstacles for mobility and temporary relocation programs which aim to enable artists from restrictive political contexts to continue their practice. By learning from the experience of the Covid crisis, and particularly from restrictive contexts such as Turkey, this report explores how to support artists and maintain spaces of artistic freedom despite these circumstances. The report provides artists' perspectives and experiences related to the challenges of the pandemic, and presents the strategies they used to cope with them. As Covid exposed the interlinkage between economic, political, and psychosocial risks, the report provides a critical perspective on the concept of "risk" and of being "at-risk." It also examines the challenges and opportunities that affected the work of organizations supporting artistic freedom and mobility, and how those organizations were able to respond to the needs of artists in this period. Drawing on practices that emerged in response to the pandemic, the report develops recommendations to guide future attempts to expand transnational solidarity for artistic freedom in the face of the pandemic’s long-term impacts, as well as any future threats or obstacles of similar nature