National relations : public diplomacy, national identity and the Swedish Institute, 1945-1970 / Nikolas Glover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glover, Nikolas, 1979-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sweden--Foreign relations--1950-.

Sweden.

Svenska institutet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lund : Nordic Academic Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal>In Stockholm in January of 1945, an assembly of Swedish diplomats and businessmen initiated an organization that was to improve the country's reputation abroad. The new, semi-governmental Swedish Institute was charged with explaining Sweden's policy of neutrality during the war, with encouraging peace-building, and with promoting foreign trade in the new international world order. Original and insightful, this account analyzes the policies, funding, and national narratives of the Swedish Institute. Providing a historical perspective on the polit

Contents:

Cover; Copyright ; Contents; The Swedish Institute and inter-nationalism; A necessary yet indefinable invention; Perspectives on public diplomacy; Historicising communication; Inter-national identities; The shape of things to come; Forerunners and frames 1945; The British Council and the Danish Society; Interests representing Sweden; Ideas about transmissions and rituals; Narratives of being special in a normal sense; Survival in an age of enlightenment 1945-1953; Creating organisational space; Truth, control and therapy; A blueprint of the nation

Stabilised support, imagining the image 1954-1962Combining technical assistance and business; Capturing the image of Sweden; The personification of the nation; The politics of change 1961-1962; A brief financial history; Trade policy, neutrality and peace-keeping; Professionalised structures, fragmenting visions 1963-1970; A cultural institute in a state of capitalism; Public relations and the public's relations of the nation; Interpretations of the nation; Chronologies in context; A history of contested claims; The communication(isation) of enlightenment; Narratives from fact to friction

Three arguments about the history of national relationsNational relations in world society; Introducing the macroperspective; Sweden, the US and modernity; Sweden Ltd. and the status quo; Summary; Appendix; Notes; References; Acknowledgements; About the author

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Stockholm University.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-284).

ISBN:

91-85509-95-7

OCLC:

796384550