Russia's Vaccine Diplomacy in Central Europe: Between a Political Campaign and a Business Project

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F21%3A10435748" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/21:10435748 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=4CYO9Stslc" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=4CYO9Stslc</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32422/mv-cjir.1820" target="_blank" >10.32422/mv-cjir.1820</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Russia's Vaccine Diplomacy in Central Europe: Between a Political Campaign and a Business Project

Original language description

Drawing on the concept of vaccine diplomacy, the article analyses Russia&apos;s efforts to promote its Sputnik V vaccine and the repercussions this had in two Central European EU member states which authorized the use of the Russian vaccine. The authors argue that for Russia, Sputnik V promotion was significant both as a business project and as a political enterprise, as it was supposed to enhance Russia&apos;s international status and help it in overcoming its post-Crimea isolation from the West. The results were mixed, however, as Russia&apos;s international credibility had been undermined by its previous policies. Thus, in Hungary the vaccine managed to gain some traction thanks to a government that preferred importing non-EU certified vaccines as part of its larger policy of fostering closer ties with the authoritarian great powers in Eurasia. In Slovakia, the vaccine deal with Russia caused a political crisis but eventually resulted in a very poor performance of Sputnik V as compared to EU-certified vaccines.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Mezinárodní vztahy

ISSN

0323-1844

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

56

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

131-146

UT code for WoS article

000727653900007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85121930896