Broadening Soft Power in EU-US Relations - European Foreign Affairs Review View Broadening Soft Power in EU-US Relations by Giles Scott-Smith,Simon Schunz,Luk Van Langenhove - European Foreign Affairs Review Broadening Soft Power in EU-US Relations Giles Scott-Smith Luk Van Langenhove 24 Special

This article introduces the research problem and questions guiding the special issue, situating them  in the relevant academic context with references to the literature on soft power and its historical and contemporary relevance for the transatlantic relationship. Based on a reconceptualization of the notion of soft power in the context of ‘Transatlantica’, defined as the political and geographical space inhabited by the EU and the US, it provides an overview of the key insights of the research articles and synthesizes the findings emerging from the different policy domains studied in the special issue. It concludes by deriving the broader conceptual insights – in particular an expanded conception of soft power – as well as the normative, policy-relevant implications from these findings.

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