Abstract
This chapter examines the transatlantic educational exchange during the Cold War as the manifestation of American public diplomacy. It asks how American social sciences entered, through institutions and persons, the post-war Nordic countries. Secondly, the chapter investigates, as an example case, how one specific concept of American social sciences, namely “cross pressure”, was vernacularized in the everyday public sphere according to the Nordic newspapers. Mapping the studies conducted on educational diplomacy, particularly exchange programmes, this chapter shows how American scholarships were the central tool in mediating the ideas of American social sciences in the Nordic countries. Although they were the slow media of public diplomacy, American social sciences had a major impact on the processing of the Nordic welfare states during their fast-moving reformative years.
Translated title of the contribution | Hidasta mediaa ristipaineissa: Amerikkalainen kylmän sodan koulutusdiplomatia Pohjoismaissa. |
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Original language | English |
Title of host publication | Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion |
Editors | Fredrik Norén, Emil Stjernholm, C. Claire Thomson |
Number of pages | 21 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Publication date | 16 Oct 2022 |
Edition | 1 |
Pages | 181-201 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-031-05170-8 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-031-05171-5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 16 Oct 2022 |
MoE publication type | A3 Book chapter |
Fields of Science
- 5201 Political History
- 615 History and Archaeology
- 5141 Sociology