This study discusses the ability of culture to affect a state’s foreign policies in terms of cultural diplomacy, concentrating on the institutional level. It argues that one way a culture may affect a state’s cultural diplomacy is in making national institutions have features similar to the cultural features. Using China and Canada for comparative analysis, this article tests the theory that a state’s institutions of cultural diplomacy have features paralleling its own culture. This examination demonstrates that China and Canada, two states with different cultures, have different features in their institutions of cultural diplomacy that are consistent with Chinese and Canadian cultures respectively, thus supporting the validity of the theory.
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See, for example, Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York: Scribner, 1958); L. W. Pye, The Spirit of Chinese Politics (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992); Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba, The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1989).
See, for example, J. S. Nye Jr, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (??: PublicAffairs, 2005); Hans Morgenthau, “Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Peace and Power” (New York: Knopf, 1973).
Samuel Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1968); Matthew Shugart and John Carey, Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); Kathleen Thelen, How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Jeremy Paltiel, “Canada and China: An Agenda for the Twenty-First Century: A Rejoinder to Charles Burton,” Canadian Foreign Policy, 15:2 (2009); David Webster, “Canada and Bilateral Human Rights Dialogues,” Canadian Foreign Policy, 16:3 (2010).
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Louis Belanger, “Redefining Cultural Diplomacy: Cultural Security and Foreign Policy in Canada,” Political Psychology 20.4 (1999); Evan Potter, “Canada and the New Public Diplomacy,” International Journal 58.1 (2002).
The PRC was founded on 1 October 1949.
Graham White, “Big Is Different from Little: On Taking Size Seriously in the Analysis of Canadian Governmental Institutions,” Canadian Public Administration 33 (1990): 530.
Philip Resnick, Parliament vs. People: An Essay on Democracy and Canadian Political Culture (Vancouver: New Star Books, 1984), 70.
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G. T. Allison and M. H. Halperin, “Bureaucratic Politics: A Paradigm and Some Policy Implications,” World Politics 24 (1972); G. T. Allison and P. Zelikow, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 2nd ed. (New York: Longman, 1999).
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This study discusses the ability of culture to affect a state’s foreign policies in terms of cultural diplomacy, concentrating on the institutional level. It argues that one way a culture may affect a state’s cultural diplomacy is in making national institutions have features similar to the cultural features. Using China and Canada for comparative analysis, this article tests the theory that a state’s institutions of cultural diplomacy have features paralleling its own culture. This examination demonstrates that China and Canada, two states with different cultures, have different features in their institutions of cultural diplomacy that are consistent with Chinese and Canadian cultures respectively, thus supporting the validity of the theory.
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