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1 online resource (290 pages) |
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; About the author; 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 politics of Swedish propaganda and explaining how idea. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Svenska institutet.
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Svenska institutet |
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Sweden -- Foreign relations -- 1950-
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Diplomacy. |
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HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia |
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Diplomatic relations |
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Sweden https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRmFKpvRPQrQfjc7kBGB |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1950 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Glover, Nikolas. National Relations : Public Diplomacy, National Identity and the Swedish Institute 1945-1970. Chicago : Nordic Academic Press, ©2012 9789185509669 |
| ISBN |
9789185509959 (electronic bk.) |
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9185509957 (electronic bk.) |
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9789187121241 (electronic bk.) |
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9187121247 (electronic bk.) |
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