Changes and Constants in the Cultural Diplomacy of Germany and Austria in the 1960s and 1970s in Comparison with the Countries of Western Europe and the USA
Abstract
The cultural diplomacy of the Federal Republic of Germany underwent a period of great progress and fundamental changes during 1960s and 1970s. This study analyses whether such a development was specific to Western Germany or whether it also occurred in other countries? A synchronic asymmetric historical comparison of the cultural diplomacy (its chronological development, basic principles and its thematic and geographical priorities) is presented, FRG being compared with other countries of the West: France, the USA, Great Britain, Italy and Austria.
The results show that the socio-historical factors, rather than international relations and transnational transfers, were considerably more influential for the development of the cultural diplomacy in the Euro-Atlantic space within the 1960s and 1970s.