Parry, Joy (2000) Companies of clouds : the development of multilateral cultural cooperation in western European international organisations. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This thesis traces the development of styles and theories of cultural cooperation from
the pre-World War II models developed by France and Britain in particular, through
the post-WWII international cooperation structures which included cultural
cooperation as part of their structures. Organisations considered include the
International Committee for Intellectual Cooperation, the Brussels Treaty
Organisation, the Council of Europe and the European Union, focusing primarily on
the non-educational or scientific aspects of cultural cooperation. Sources used include
documentation of the two latter bodies and the public records of the UK Foreign
Office and Ministry of Education.
Intellectual cooperation was launched under the auspices of the League of Nations as
a separate entity from the bilateral cultural relations of governments. Its tradition
continues to be powerfully felt in the activity of the Council of Europe, after WWII
the fulcrum of multilateral cultural cooperation. The thesis shows how it moved away
from acting as a counterpoint to political developments towards the creation of a
programme based on sociological study, which contained a strong element of
federalist ideology, developing its own orthodoxy of "cultural policy", until partly
"repossessed" in the 1990s by political imperatives.
The contrast with the tightly regulated European Union is marked, and shows in
certain respects a return to earlier experiments in cultural cooperation, which
developed most of its theory and practice in the pre-1992 era when the Community
Treaty did not provide for action in the field of culture. The thesis argues that the EU's
cultural programme is not a manifestation of a "Europeanisation" of cultural policy,
although policies elsewhere in the organisation may well have that effect, but of
multilateral cultural cooperation.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	J Political Science > JZ International relations
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	International cooperation, International agencies -- Europe, Western
Official Date:	April 2000
Dates:	Date Event April 2000 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Theatre Studies
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Extent:	255, [62] leaves
Language:	eng

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