External cultural policy of Germany in the context of foreign policy theories
The article deals with the external policy of Germany in the cultural sphere in the context of some external policy theories, namely neorealism, liberalism and institutionalism whose representatives explain the ways a state can use its external cultural policy in order to impact on the state peace by means of culture, promoting its own values and influencing the decisions adopted at different levels. The authors consider German external cultural policy peculiarities from the perspective of different political institutions’ competencies, that makes it possible to assess the mechanism of the interaction among the actors of external policy in the sphere of culture and the institutional practices the resort to.