The foreign policy of every democratic cannot but take into account the characteristics of culture of neighbouring countries when reaching decisions in foreign affairs, especially during times of crisis and wars.
It is no secret that countries have always been involved in active cross-cultural exchange though family, political and economic ties. In this way, every state advanced own language, culture, religion and so on.
It's a well-known fact that INGOs played and continue playing one of the major roles in building IR. There have been created hundreds of INGOs in the course of two past centuries aimed at providing a better international communication.
Sooner or later, but it is nearly every state that has to make a choice between own self-identity and collective values. The thing is, nowadays the world is strictly divided into certain political and economic zones that profess own cultural worthies.
The issue of 'cultural appropriation', where cultural elements are taken from the context of their society and reused in a new context, often as part of an academic or commodified 'product' is a phenomenon that happens more often than not.

Cold War period

The situation that formed in the world after the WWII was absolutely unique in the way that it was the second time when the world survived the Second World War. The Europe was in ruins and there wasn't much time to think about the culture. However, it is exactly the early post-war period that signifies the beginning of the "Cold War' that lasted for about 50 years and transformed culture into an effective political tool.

On the other hand, these fifty years are marked with advanced development of science in general and mass-media in particular. Promoting culture is not a problem nowadays due to all those technical inventions including Internet, newspapers, DVD films and even telephone.

What has changed in the sphere of culture after the WWII? And how does it shape our current events?

In IR in particular for example, the culture has finally become one of the attributes every politician is supposed to take into account. It is not only when inviting to an official lunch, having a small talk, etc, it is the influence when holding negotiations at the highest level for example or anticipating all possible negative that might appear during ceremonial meeting.

After the WWII the culture became systematized and centralized having become one of the numerous state-system governing devices.

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