The Cold War statecraft and public diplomacy: assessing US-Soviet scientific-technical exchanges

Olga Krasnyak ()
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Olga Krasnyak: National Research University Higher School of Economics

Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 2023, vol. 19, issue 1, No 5, 54-63

Abstract: Abstract Using a statecraft framework, the article analyses Cold War US-Soviet exchange programs with a specific focus on scientific-technical exchanges. The practice of scientific-technical exchanges is meaningful at least in three ways: (1) it helps to better understand the art of American and Soviet statecraft that had a major impact on the course of events in maintaining inter-state relations; (2) it shows that statecraft does not make itself, but is accomplished through various tools of public diplomacy in which exchange programs are one; and (3) it allows to utilize a long-term perspective and evaluate the legacy of the exchanges of persons and their impact on bilateral relations despite the Cold War tensions. The legacy of scientific-technical exchanges and their impact on bilateral relations might be incorporated into the contemporary academic and practitioner discourse on public diplomacy.

Keywords: Public diplomacy; Statecraft; The Cold War; Scientific-technical exchanges (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1057/s41254-021-00220-8

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