A debate in the Foreign Office in the 1960s for an early attempt of a European Cultural Diplomacy

Rossi, Christian

2021-01-01

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Abstract

Cultural Diplomacy has always been and important part of foreign policy, and the British diplomacy has used it under several facet for a long time. This epochal change in the political approach of the United King-dom towards the European Community had a consequence also in the update of cultural diplomacy, that was under consideration at the cultural department of the Foreign Office. Cultural diplomacy was seen as one of the useful political means with which to ap-proach the would-be partners of the EEC and with which to possi-bly build a common European cultural diplomacy.