When the EU launched the Eastern Partnership (EaP) in May 2009, it did so with much rhetoric about projecting its soft power into Eastern Europe. Yet today, the EU's soft power project seems to have stalled, with developments in the region being less than favourable. By being another...

This article argues that due to the uniqueness of the European Union as an international actor, its soft power sources, as conceptualized by Joseph Nye (2004), pose specific challenges, but some exceptional opportunities as well with regard to the Eastern neighbourhood. Therefore, the soft power...

This article explaines how the European Union through its instruments and practices of public diplomacy, can change the opinion of the civil society in some of the countries, members of the Eastern Partnership. Taking into account, that EU is considered to be a model of soft power, it is...

Given the partial success of the Lisbon Strategy, it has become of paramount importance to perform a thorough critical analysis of the nature of the objectives set by the newly-concocted Europe 2020 Agenda. Hence, amid the difficult times the European Union is facing, the fulfilment of this...

Soft power will be effective in many ways if its targets would accept and observe the used instruments. What kinds of soft power can the EU use, and how relevant these on those Eastern neighbours in general, Ukraine in particular? Were these political instruments used in the same region...

Due to its unique nature and particular history of development the European Union is usually said to be a sui generis actor in the international arena. Its uniqueness is reflected first of all in the fact that by its character the EU is somewhere between a state and supranational organization....