Foreign Cultural Policy of Modern Iran: Russian Vector

Bogoliubova, Natalia; Nikolaeva, Julia

doi:10.21638/spbu23.2020.106

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Regional cultural cooperation

Valenza,

Oddone

2024

Handbook of Regional Cooperation and Integration

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The last decade has witnessed a new wave of interest in the role of culture(s) in foreign affairs. Claims that the international order could undergo a clash between competing cultures have sadly returned to the headlines (Rachman, 2019). In the West, nativist politics has challenged cosmopolitan views in ways unprecedented in the post-Cold War order. Huntington's (1996) ideas have returned to the charge, either as an alleged confirmation of the American scholar's civilisation waves or, more frequently, as an attempt to critique his claims. In a best-selling novel, Michel Houellebecq (2015) depicted the alleged submission of French society to a patriarchal Muslim party that wins the Presidential elections. Amidst the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the attempts to erase Ukrainian identity and the promotion of Russian imperialism through cultural icons have received close scrutiny (i.e. Tsurkan, 2022;Valenza, 2023b). Overall, the already existing fears that the decline of the Western-based international order could end the cultural consensus around it have increased in the post-February 24 world.Despite this unexpected revival and interest in the subject, culture remains, somewhat paradoxically, the underdog of international relations (IR), including within regional cooperation studies. IR theories tend to privilege traditional conceptions of cultures as bounded systems of meanings and hence neglect the role they play in the construction of international orders. Existing works have mainly explored single case studies and analysed cultural policies implemented by regional organisations (see the next section).In line with an emerging scholarship challenging these essentialist and reductionist visions, this chapter looks at cultural policies as tools that in the framework of regional cooperation help organise cultural diversity and privilege some meanings and repertoires of practices at the expense of others (Reus-Smit, 2018). By recognising from the outset that there is no such thing as an 'organic culture', we seek to uncover whether and to what extent regional order-builders -regional institutions, national governments, or any other relevant actor -resort to nativist or pluralist conceptions through cultural cooperation. Whereas, broadly speaking, nativist conceptions conceive cultures as coherent and bounded systems of meanings, in pluralist conceptions diversity is not only managed but also integrated as a founding principle, thus refuting essentialist understandings of cultures.The chapter explores through comparative discourse analysis cultural policies in four regional organisations: the European Union (EU); the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS); the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR in Spanish); and the Andean Community (CAN in Spanish). All organisations have resorted to cultural cooperation in their framework, although the rationale and the stages of development have differed widely. In line with the theoretical approach sketched out, we find that regional organisations operate as 'diversity reg...

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Section: The Commonwealth Of Independent States: Hegemonising the 'Co...mentioning

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Regional cultural cooperation

Valenza,

Oddone

2024

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“…Culture in regional cooperation processes is a relatively overlooked area of work. Existing scholarship has explored single case studies and analysed cultural policies implemented by regional organisations, including the European Union (Sassatelli, 2009;Shore, 2006), the Commonwealth of Independent States (Morozova, 2018;Bogoliubova and Nikolaeva, 2018), and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Jones, 2004). Other studies have assessed the role of culture in regional integration processes in Latin America, such as MERCOSUR (Escobar, 1995(Escobar, , 1998Boldori, 2002;Velázquez Moreira, 2017), CAN (Falconí, 2010;Prieto, 2015), and the Central American Integration System (Rodríguez Oliva, 2011).…”

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“…Since 2011, IFESCCO has also organised the CIS Capital of Culture, mimicking the European Community's proposal adopted in 1985 (Valenza et al, 2021). The yearly initiative sought to provide opportunities not only to reshape non-capital city lives but also attract tourism and innovative ideas (Bogoliubova and Nikolaeva, 2018). At the end of the 2000s Russia increased its activities in and with the CIS in an attempt to build 'stable and amicable surroundings' and to develop 'full-fledged humanitarian ties' (Medvedev, 2008).…”

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“…It is only since 1994, when South Africa became democratic, that the multicultural nature of the country has been embraced and promoted (van der Walt & de Klerk, 2015). However, multicultural policy seems to be inadequate, and it needs to be replaced with intercultural dialog based on equal dignity and shared values (Bogoliubova & Nikolaeva, 2017). Unfortunately, limited exposure to different cultures prior to 1994 has contributed to the lack of intercultural dialog, and consequently CI, in society in general, and also in workplaces (Crowne, 2013; Pavlova, 2014).…”

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Cultural Intelligence, Flourishing, and Thriving in the South African Work Context

Lezar

Walt

2023

Sage Open

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There is increased interest in the field of cultural intelligence (CI) internationally, owing to globalization. CI seems to be a particularly important field in a country such as South Africa, which is regarded as one of the most diverse societies in the world. In this article, the relationship between CI, flourishing at work, and thriving at work is analyzed in the context of South African organizations. The purpose of the article is to establish whether CI positively influences flourishing and thriving at work. A survey study was conducted, which was quantitative. The quantitative data was collected by means of a structured questionnaire, which was distributed to a final sample of 366 individuals working at South African organizations. The findings show that CI promotes flourishing at work, and they show that flourishing at work and thriving at work are related. They also indicate that emotional well-being and social well-being mediate the influence of CI on thriving at work, such that the indirect effects are positive and significant. The findings of the study indicate that CI is important in advancing mental health in the workplace. They also point to the importance of CI in a diverse country to promote flourishing and thriving at work. CI is thus important not only when leaders are on international assignments, but also in diverse settings. Through promotion of positive outcomes such as flourishing and thriving at work, organizations functioning in diverse settings are likely to become more effective and competitive.

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Foreign Cultural Policy of Modern Iran: Russian Vector

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