Stephanie Christine Winkler is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Swedish Research Council (International Postdoc) at Goethe University Frankfurt and Stockholm University. She received her PhD in International Relations from Stockholm University in 2020. In her research, she focuses on the role of concepts in academic and political life, and specializes specifically in the trials and tribulations of the soft power concept in the context of the ongoing power shift between the United States, Japan and China. More recently, she has started to work on (1) the emergence of Cold War analogies to conceptualize US-China relations, (2) narratives and the global struggle for truth in politics as well as (3) domestic variations of the role of science in politics and its effects on international cooperation amid crisis. Stephanie is currently working on a book manuscript on the political dimension of concepts and the soft power concept.