Rola kultury w polityce zagranicznej RFN

The object of the article is to show the role of culture in the FRG’s foreign policy amid disintegration of a bipolar international order and to highlight the challenges to Germany’s cultural foreign policy in the context of globalization processes. An analysis of the sources and conditions of this policy allows to reconstruct the process of incorporating culture as an integral element of Germany’s foreign policy (the so called third pillar of FRG’s foreign policy). Inclusion of culture in the discourse of the FRG’s foreign policy alongside economic and technological potential that entails leadership contributes to a consistently constructed image of a country with a great power of attraction and capable of building positive external relations in a dynamically transforming reality of international relations.