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Textbook diplomacy: East German student exchange and the GDR's bid for global legitimacy, 1951-1990.

机译：教科书外交：东德学生交流和东德争取全球合法性的努力，1951-1990年。

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This project examines the diplomatic and cultural dimensions of international university student exchange in the former German Democratic Republic during the Cold War, and the role played by cultural foreign relations in defining the DDR's push to achieve international recognition as a legitimate state. By investigating East Germany's pursuit of global identification as a center for higher education between 1955 and 1989, and the unique experience offered by student exchange programs, this work sheds light on how soft-power politics and cultural diplomacy were used alongside traditional diplomacy to bolster the international political legitimacy of the East German `nation'.;Courting the approval of the international community was an uphill battle for the DDR from the outset of the Cold War, as its existence was deemed artificial by the western world, and the question of Germany's eventual reunification became subsumed into the broader power struggle between the US and USSR. Many scholars of both History and International Affairs have argued that the question of how to deal with a divided Germany constituted the lynchpin of Cold War foreign policy-making, and both East and West had a strong interest in seeing their respective visions of Germany realized. Yet not much consensus has been reached regarding how decisively and successfully the West's war against the DDR was actually waged. Initially faced with an isolation campaign led by West Germany, East Germany had few chances to overcome its international seclusion on strictly political grounds, and was forced to seek other means by which it could achieve and uphold a prominent international role. Even after the Ostpolitik initiatives of the late 1960's helped ease diplomatic tensions between East Germany and the rest of the world, the DDR's legitimacy as a state remained in question, and its role in the international community ill-defined.;This was partly due to its subservience to the Soviet Union in matters of foreign affairs; but it was also due to the DDR's lack of any internationally discernible cultural or national identity - and in particular, distinguishable from that of Western Germany. Centered on the question of how East Germany consequently pursued the quest for international legitimacy through soft-power methods, the investigation proceeds on three primary levels: as a study of Cold War-era international relations, as a political history of the East German cultural policy, and as an inquiry into the nature of East German self-identity. At its core, it is a study of diplomatic history, with particular attention paid to the international role the DDR sought to create for itself through bonds forged by student exchange. Combining this with both political and cultural approaches, the project emphasizes the importance of non-traditional diplomacy in East Germany's bid to achieve respected international status, and provides a fuller picture of the multifaceted nature of East Germany's place in the history of Cold War-era international relations.
机译：该项目研究了冷战期间前德意志民主共和国的国际大学生交流的外交和文化层面，以及文化外交关系在界定解除武装，复员和重返社会推动国际承认其为合法国家方面的作用。通过调查东德在1955年至1989年之间对全球认同作为高等教育中心的追求，以及学生交流计划提供的独特经验，这项工作揭示了如何将软实力政治和文化外交与传统外交一道用来支持德国的发展。东德“民族”的国际政治合法性；获得国际社会的认可是从冷战开始对东帝汶民主国家的艰巨战斗，因为它的存在被西方世界视为虚假，以及德国的问题。最终的统一归结为美苏之间更广泛的权力斗争。历史和国际事务的许多学者都认为，如何应对分裂的德国问题构成了冷战外交决策的关键，东方和西方都对看到他们各自的德国构想抱有浓厚的兴趣。然而，关于西方对DDR的决定性战争的果断与成功，尚未达成共识。最初面对西德领导的孤立运动，东德几乎没有机会在严格的政治基础上克服其国际隔离，并被迫寻求其他方式来实现并维护国际地位。即使在1960年代后期的Ostpolitik计划帮助缓解了东德与世界其他地区之间的外交紧张关系之后，复员制国家的合法性仍然受到质疑，其在国际社会中的作用还不确定。在外交事务上对苏联的服从；但这也是由于复员方案缺乏国际上可辨别的文化或民族特征，尤其是与西德地区的区别。围绕着东德如何通过软实力方法追求国际合法性的问题，调查从三个主要层面进行：作为对冷战时期国际关系的研究，作为东德文化政策的政治历史，并作为对东德自我身份本质的探究。它的核心是对外交史的研究，尤其要注意解除武装，复员和重返社会通过学生交流所建立的纽带为自己创造的国际作用。结合政治和文化方法，该项目强调了非传统外交对东德争取获得尊敬的国际地位的重要性，并更全面地展示了东德在冷战时期的地位具有多面性国际关系。

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    Wiley, Christopher J.;

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    Georgetown University.;

  • 授予单位 Georgetown University.;
  • 学科 History European.;Political Science International Relations.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2013
  • 页码 306 p.
  • 总页数 306
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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