CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Pálvölgyi-Polyák, Eszter |
|---|---|
| Title | What does (not) make soft power work: Domestic Institutions and Chinese Public Diplomacy in Central Europe |
| Summary | What does make soft power policies work in a certain context? In this thesis, I attempt to answer this question in the context of Chinese public diplomacy activities in the Central European region. In the past decade, China expressed increasing interest in this region, however, the same public diplomacy approach did not bring unitary response in different countries. The framework of the thesis relies on the conceptualizations of soft power, the literature on the determinant of success in soft power, and the domestic factors influencing a country’s foreign policy. The methodological approach used in the analysis is in-case process tracing. The two case countries, Hungary and the Czech Republic are selected on the basis of their similarities, which act as control variables. While the soft power policies have multiple effects on the subject countries which are hard to predict, I provide an account which explains the success or failure of soft power through the domestic structure of the subject country. |
| Supervisor | Jenne, Erin Kristin |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/polyak_eszter.pdf |
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