Open AccessCombining soft power with the geopolitical approach – how difficult is for the EU to change its attitude?
Author(s) -
Radu Carp
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista română de studii baltice şi nordice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2067-1725
pISSN - 2067-225X
DOI - 10.53604/rjbns.v12i2_6
Subject(s) - geopolitics , multilateralism , political science , soft power , european union , democracy promotion , politics , democracy , power (physics) , promotion (chess) , political economy , order (exchange) , international trade , law and economics , law , democratization , sociology , business , physics , finance , quantum mechanics
After gradually evolving from an economic project to a political one, European Union leaders declare nowadays that it is time to go forward and to build a geopolitical actor on the international stage. This paper does make an account on the current stage of relevant geopolitical actors and how they view EU. In order to address this issue, EU have to focus more on its soft power instruments, like multilateralism and the promotion of democracy, rule of law and human rights, and also climate change, apart from hard power instruments like trade, security and defense, cybersecurity and data privacy.