This dataset, curated on the basis of a subset of data in the electronic World Treaty Index (worldtreatyindex.com) or eWTI [1], offers metadata on all known bilateral cultural agreements signed between 1919-1980. It includes several additions and corrections to the eWTI data, as well as new labels. Prepared as part of the research project The Culture of International Society, this dataset is analyzed in an article tentatively entitled “The Rise of the Cultural Treaty.” Discussion of my choices for inclusion in this dataset is online at: https://github.com/humlab/the_culture_of_international_relations/wiki/eWTI-Notes:-Selection-Decisions-Log-2020,-2021. [1] Paul Poast, Michael James Bommarito and Daniel Martin Katz, ‘The Electronic World Treaty Index: Collecting the Population of International Agreements in the 20th Century’, SSRN Scholarly Paper (Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network, February 15, 2010), online at: http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2652760.

Work on this dataset, conducted in collaboration with Humlab (Umeå University), was supported by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), P16-0900:1.