Lutsenko A. The "soft power" strategies in the geopolitics of the United States of America, the European Union and the Russian Federation

The thesis is devoted to the research of the basic "soft power" strategies of the USA, the EU and Russia, their cause-effect relations with the practice of the foreign and security policy under conditions of defining international impacts potential and their effectiveness in the international relations. The integral political and systems research of the evolution of the "soft power" concepts in the international relations was conducted. It is pointed to the fact that nowadays the "soft power" strategy is transformed into the "wise power" strategy as the priority factor of the foreign and security policy. The thesis is based on the theoretical and methodological researches of the scientific problem, the generalization of the foreign and domestic political scientists' points of view and the fact resources such as strategic documents on the issues of the national security and foreign policy of the world's leading political actors, analytical, scientific and research centers' groundwork, official speeches of the US, EU and Russian leaders. In the thesis the peculiarities of the US, EU and Russian "soft power" strategies are analyzed, the generalities and distinguishers of the "soft" domination are marked out. They lie in the generality of the doctrine items concerning "soft power" as an important component of the foreign and security policy and in the distinction of the approaches of their realization. The research was conducted with the regard for the Ukraine's strategic priorities in the relations with the USA, the EU and Russia pertinent to preserve the sovereignty and independence, to restore the relations with the key actors in the world policy, the perspective of the active and constructive role in the region and the international reputation of the state.