1. Caterina Carta, Introduction: Cultural Diplomacy in Europe: Between Domestic and International Arenas PART I: Setting up the institutional machinery: tuning the different voices of European Cultural Diplomacy 2. Richard Higgott, 'EU Cultural Diplomacy: A Contextual Analysis of Constraints and Opportunities' 3. Stuart MacDonald and Erik Vlaeminck
Culture, Language and Strategy: Definitions and Discourse in the EU's Strategic framework for Culture in External Relations4. Caterina Carta and Angel Badillo
National ways to Cultural Diplomacy in Europe 5. Riccardo Trobbiani and Lina Kirjazovaite
'EU Cultural Relations with the MENA'6. Silviu Piros and Joachim Koops
Capacity building in higher education as a catalyst for EU education diplomacy PART II: The role of Intra-European Cultural Diplomacy in the age of populisms7. Richard Higgott and Virginia Proud
''The Populist Nationalist Zeitgeist' and the Limits of European Cultural Diplomacy'8. Virginia Proud
Culture Under Populism; a nationalist agenda in an EU context.9. Caterina Carta and Eleonora Belfiore ''Reaching across the fault lines?': The role of Cultural Diplomacy in post-Brexit Europe' PART III: Perspectives on the future 10. Riccardo Trobbiani and Andrea Pavon-Guinea
Navigating Uncertainty: The Future of the EU cultural relations. 11. Caterina Carta and Richard Higgott
Conclusion: Considerations on the strategic deployment of culture in Europe and beyond.