Authoritarian economic soft power: the case of Russian and Chinese investments in Central Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F25%3A10498706" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/25:10498706 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=kHN6-IRD8Y" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=kHN6-IRD8Y</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2025.2463039" target="_blank" >10.1080/14631377.2025.2463039</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Authoritarian economic soft power: the case of Russian and Chinese investments in Central Europe
Original language description
The paper deals with the economic soft power strategies of authoritarian countries in the Visegrad region: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Based on the material of authoritarian countries, state-owned enterprises and investments, economic soft power is necessary for the investment to be accepted and not perceived as a security issue. Based on empirical material, it concludes that even if the countries' overall soft power ranking is low, they can overcome such an obstacle through cooperation with populist leaders. Even scaling down their presence for economic and non-economic reasons, Russia and China still leave the room for a return open, as the investment relies on a populist type of ruler, not a specific politician. It uses two case studies, one for Sputnik V as the economic soft power creation strategy and the case of CITIC departure for the scaling down presence strategy.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-23328S" target="_blank" >GA21-23328S: State-Owned Enterprises as Economic Statecraft Actors? The Case of Russia</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Post-Communist Economies
ISSN
1463-1377
e-ISSN
1465-3958
Volume of the periodical
37
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
247-267
UT code for WoS article
001432653200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105001507437