| Abstract: | The volume "Cultural Diplomacy" is a work by a Macedonian author, unparalleled on a global scale. It has been created over a period of two years, based on a vast bibliographical material of over a hundred and fifty most relevant world sources in the respective field. This edition is only the first stage, which in the future, we believe, is going to become an ambassador of the Macedonian cultural thought through its numerous renditions into the world languages. The strength of this volume rests with its blend of the theoretical postulates and the conceptual dimensions of the cultural diplomacy, its history and top achievements, the analyses of the national doctrines of countries of diverse profile and the attempts and strategies of the Republic of Macedonia that correspond to the principles of this world-prominent diplomatic tool. In the volume's prelude, Mr. Tevdovski presents the highly dramatic and cyclic relationship between diplomacy and culture, approaching with his analyses the very frontiers of the philosophical, never losing, however, the rhythm of the exact and analytical method. This is only an introduction to the serious, theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of cultural diplomacy, viewed from various standpoints and perspectives and broken down to the finest conceptual and geo- political contours, as though prepared not for an anatomical undertaking but a process of utilization in stages. Perhaps the most eminent aspect of this volume is its comparative analysis where the author's broad knowledge, scholarly criticism and narration gift become united in the most singular way and where, with laser precision and uniform confidence, Mr. Tevdovski's analyses shed light to the national contexts and the doctrines of the traditional Western super powers, the USA, France and the United Kingdom, the rediscovered on the international stage, Russia, China and India, the medium big, Brazil, Australia and Japan, as well as the smaller and smallest ones, such as South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore and many others. Finally, in the last chapters of his volume, without any complex, extensively and strictly scholarly, Mr. Tevdovski discloses the cultural diplomacy of and in Macedonia. Regarding the Macedonian cultural diplomacy as being institutionally |
EBSCOhost
World Bank
EconBiz
De Gruyter
OpenEdition
European Respiratory Journal
Mathematical Sciences Publishers Journals
327 
Make a suggestion Refine your search21st century strategies of the trilateral countries / Robert B. Zoellick
