This book presents the result of fifteen years of research and analysis of cultural policy, within the curriculum of undergraduate and graduate studies of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and the University of Arts in Belgrade, as well as a great number of research projects, in which the author participated. The book is an original scientific contribution to the investigation of the contemporary cultural policy, particularly in the sections that are concerned with the comparative analysis of key words and contemporary strategies and instruments of cultural policy in Europe. Approximately 25 key terms related to contemporary cultural policies (sustainable development, minority, social cohesion, etc.) were analyzed in the book. Each of the chapters problematises an important theoretical aspect of cultural policies. Twelve of the most significant theoreticians of cultural policy and twelve research centres operating in the European context, with a particular emphasis on the turbulent transition context of South Eastern Europe, were researched, studied and classified. Owing to this fact, this scientific publication is intended not only for an academic audience, but for all participants in the current reform processes of public practical policies. The book is also aimed at researchers, analysts, and those employed in all sectors and areas in which decisions are taken, related to the further cultural development in the region of South East Europe, which has been undergoing structural changes of practical cultural policy in the course of recent years. The book contains five chapters, which problematise the most significant issues of contemporary cultural policy in the period of the last two decades.

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