Connected in freedom? Reconstructing a foundational value in EU and US foreign policy discourses



: Ville Sinkkonen, Henri Vogt

Publisher: Springer

: 2019

: Journal of Transatlantic Studies

: 17

: 3

: 1754-1018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s42738-019-00024-y

: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s42738-019-00024-y

: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/40533613


The ideal of freedom has historically instituted the Transatlantic Community of Val-ues spanning the USA and Europe. Given the framework of liberal crises that cur-rently dominates Western mental maps, it is crucial to contemplate what has hap-pened to this legacy of freedom and, consequently, to the very foundations of this value community. To achieve this, we draw on the theoretical debates on freedom to construct a novel conceptual framework of the potential uses of the notion in politi-cal discourses. This scaffold is then utilised as a tool to analyse, and ultimately com-pare, the employment of freedom in a selection of documents produced by the lead-erships of the EU and the USA since the turn of the millennium.

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