This dissertation examines the relevance of identity and cultural issues for the subfield of foreign policy analysis. The purpose is to identify the gaps and absences of these concepts in part of the development of the subfield, postulating them as deficiencies in the explanatory capacity of these studies. Considering that constructivism comes closest to the structure of understanding needed to cover these two topics as fundamental explanatory factors in international politics, we present its main points and how they are constructed and developed in foreign policy analysis. We understand that foreign policy is ultimately an expression of encounters in the constantly negotiated space of the border between the internal and the external through the mechanisms of identification among the actors involved. Therefore, disregarding the inter-factors of forming shared ideas and ways of identifying self generates losses for the understanding of the system and forms of international insertion. The main observation is that the constant relationship of construction between self and the other, on which foreign policy studies ultimately focus, are not the object of attention in most production in the subfield. Thus, this thesis argues, the constant relationship of (re) production of identities and the cultural elements imbricated in foreign policy shape the relationship between the actors involved. The ways in which individuals, institutions, and formulating entities are recognized and permanently constructed are crucial to establishing relationships with exogenous factors, and therefore with other actors in the international relationships. As an illustration of the performative analysis of a cultural foreign policy, we study the case of Germany and its activity in the cultural and educational sector internationally, mainly through institutions that act locally and seek to maintain stable identities as well as routines in the mechanisms of identification and recognition among the actors. Thus, this dissertation suggests, and seeks to argue in favor of the understanding of identity and culture are fundamental conditions for the subfield of analysis of foreign policy making room for this type of study in the area.