Richard Q Turcsányi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4064176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Q Turcsányi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard Q |
| FAMILY NAME | Turcsányi |
| SIGNATURE | TURCSANYI R Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | Palacký University Olomouc |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2036-6029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Viktor Orbán plays China: The hidden agency of ‘China’s best friend in the EU’
Agency amid asymmetry: How small European states shape relations with a rising China
Languages and Linkages: Explaining Diaspora Attitudes Toward the Ancestral Homeland
What explains the attitudes of diasporas toward their ancestral homeland? One answer suggests some pull toward the country of origin (“ancestral homeland”) based on a shared cultural identity. In contrast, another explanation looks at how host country (“contemporary homeland”) politics surrounding the “perpetual foreigners” can push the diaspora toward their ancestral homeland. In this paper, we recognize that the link between the diaspora and th…
Does Populism Matter in EU–China Relations? The Cases of Italy and Czechia
This article investigates whether populism affects the foreign policy of European Union (EU) member states towards China and, if so, through what mechanisms. In order to answer this question, we examine the cases of Italy and Czechia, both of which went through turbulent relations with China in the recent decade whilst also experiencing several government changes between populist and non‐populist parties. Our analysis reveals that whilst populist…
Willingness to Boycott Russian Goods in China: How Political Ideology Shapes Consumer Preferences in an Authoritarian Context
Who is likely to engage in Anti-Russian boycotts in China? While existing literature focuses on ethnocentrism and nationalism as drivers of political consumerism, this article explores political boycotts that contradict the dominant discourse of the Chinese Communist Party. Drawing on original survey data, the article uses two ideological dimensions—social authoritarianism and attitudes to economic organisation – to delineate three distinct ideol…
Public attitudes to China in the ‘Five Eyes: Unpacking views across the Anglosphere security community
China is an important security concern for the United States and its allies, including the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing group that is sometimes described as the core of the ‘Anglosphere’ security community. While we would expect securitising discourses at the elite level to reproduce some common perceptions of China, to what extent are attitudes to China shared across the publics in these countries? In this article, we unpack public attitudes t…
National Dependence and Public Perceptions: Understanding the Economic Determinants of Foreign Policy Preferences Toward China
The relationship between economic dependence and foreign influence has become an increasingly prominent topic in International Relations. However, academic studies and public discussion largely overlook that dependence could influence not only states’ official policies but also the foreign policy preferences of their populations. In addition, they simplistically assume that material dependence directly establishes influence without considering ad…
Identarian Atlanticism and foreign policy implications: A study of European public attitudes
Allies at Heart? A Study of Ideational Continentalism in Canadians’ Foreign Policy Attitudes
The United States has long represented one of Canada's primary international allies. This partnership has remained strong despite turbulent times in the relationship, such as the one brought forth by the Trump presidency. Our article seeks to understand the sources of such continuity through the lens of continentalism. While historical accounts of continentalism have portrayed it as a passive force stemming from Canada's material self-interest, s…
Worsening British views of China in 2020: Evidence from public opinion, parliament, and the media
The East Is Red…Again! How the Specters of Communism and Russia Shape Central and Eastern European Views of China
During the past decade, China has rapidly emerged as a major player in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Will it divide Europe? Might these formerly communist countries align themselves again with a communist superpower to their east? Or does their past experience of Russia and communism generate suspicions of China? This article explores what public opinion data from a fall 2020 survey of six CEE countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, P…
Diffusion of Influence? Detecting China’s Footprint in Foreign Policies of Other Countries
Chinese Pride and European Prejudice
The Chinese government’s cover-up of the origins of the new coronavirus, and its more openly prideful and aggressive foreign and human rights policies, triggered a dramatic deterioration of foreign views of China in 2020. That year also witnessed a significant increase in anti-Chinese/Asian prejudice around the world. Could the former have shaped the latter? Drawing on theories of prejudice and ideology, and using an Autumn 2020 13-nation Europea…
Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus
The paper presents an original corpus of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs press conferences. The dataset is a unique source of information on official positions and diplomatic narratives of China mapping almost two decades of its foreign policy discourse. The corpus contains almost 23,000 question – answer dyads from 2002 to 2020 ready to be used for analytical purposes. We argue the dataset is an important contribution to the scholarship …
Friends or foes? How diverging views of communist past undermine the China-CEE ‘16+1 platform’
The BRI and China’s Soft Power in Europe: Why Chinese Narratives (Initially) Won
The article aims to contribute to our understanding of China’s soft power in Europe and the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in this regard. We conduct analyses of two leading newspapers in the United Kingdom, in Spain, and in Poland to discover how the BRI was framed there in the period from mid-2013 to mid-2017. The empirical results show that the media reported about the initiative quite positively – especially compared to the gene…
China and the Frustrated Region: Central and Eastern Europe’s Repeating Troubles with Great Powers
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) had few historical opportunities to interact with China, but with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the 16+1 platform, that changed dramatically in recent years. The article discusses recent development in the China-CEE relations with the aim of explaining why the CEE countries became excited about China initially, but also why this excitement led prevailingly to disappointment. It will be argued that the fru…
It’s the politics, stupid: China’s relations with Muslim countries on the background of Xinjiang crackdown
The goal of this paper is to present an explanation of why the Muslim governments largely abstained from even bringing up the Uyghur case with China, while the Rohingya issue provoked official condemnations by the governments in many Muslim countries. Although economic factors are most often consulted internationally, this article puts forward political factors as sufficient to explain the Muslim governments’ responses to the Xinjiang issue – pri…
Chinese Assertiveness in the South China Sea: Power Sources, Domestic Politics, and Reactive Foreign Policy
Shifting power in Asia–Pacific? The rise of China, Sino-US competition and regional middle power allegiance
One of the most prominent debates in International Relations (IR) in recent years has been around the rise of China and the nature of the country's power. It is surprising, therefore, that while there are many books whose titles combine ‘China’ with the words ‘power’ or ‘rise’, in reality almost none address the issue of China's power as a central theme. Moreover, those few which do—for example, David Shambaugh's China goes global: the partial po…
Assessing the Power of China: Insights from the Conceptual Thinking about Power
The BRI and China’s Soft Power in Europe: Why Chinese Narratives (Initially) Won
The article aims to contribute to our understanding of China’s soft power in Europe and the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in this regard. We conduct analyses of two leading newspapers in the United Kingdom, in Spain, and in Poland to discover how the BRI was framed there in the period from mid-2013 to mid-2017. The empirical results show that the media reported about the initiative quite positively – especially compared to the gene…
China and the Frustrated Region: Central and Eastern Europe’s Repeating Troubles with Great Powers
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) had few historical opportunities to interact with China, but with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the 16+1 platform, that changed dramatically in recent years. The article discusses recent development in the China-CEE relations with the aim of explaining why the CEE countries became excited about China initially, but also why this excitement led prevailingly to disappointment. It will be argued that the fru…
Chinese Pride and European Prejudice
The Chinese government’s cover-up of the origins of the new coronavirus, and its more openly prideful and aggressive foreign and human rights policies, triggered a dramatic deterioration of foreign views of China in 2020. That year also witnessed a significant increase in anti-Chinese/Asian prejudice around the world. Could the former have shaped the latter? Drawing on theories of prejudice and ideology, and using an Autumn 2020 13-nation Europea…
Diffusion of Influence? Detecting China’s Footprint in Foreign Policies of Other Countries
Does Populism Matter in EU–China Relations? The Cases of Italy and Czechia
This article investigates whether populism affects the foreign policy of European Union (EU) member states towards China and, if so, through what mechanisms. In order to answer this question, we examine the cases of Italy and Czechia, both of which went through turbulent relations with China in the recent decade whilst also experiencing several government changes between populist and non‐populist parties. Our analysis reveals that whilst populist…
National Dependence and Public Perceptions: Understanding the Economic Determinants of Foreign Policy Preferences Toward China
The relationship between economic dependence and foreign influence has become an increasingly prominent topic in International Relations. However, academic studies and public discussion largely overlook that dependence could influence not only states’ official policies but also the foreign policy preferences of their populations. In addition, they simplistically assume that material dependence directly establishes influence without considering ad…
Allies at Heart? A Study of Ideational Continentalism in Canadians’ Foreign Policy Attitudes
The United States has long represented one of Canada's primary international allies. This partnership has remained strong despite turbulent times in the relationship, such as the one brought forth by the Trump presidency. Our article seeks to understand the sources of such continuity through the lens of continentalism. While historical accounts of continentalism have portrayed it as a passive force stemming from Canada's material self-interest, s…
It’s the politics, stupid: China’s relations with Muslim countries on the background of Xinjiang crackdown
The goal of this paper is to present an explanation of why the Muslim governments largely abstained from even bringing up the Uyghur case with China, while the Rohingya issue provoked official condemnations by the governments in many Muslim countries. Although economic factors are most often consulted internationally, this article puts forward political factors as sufficient to explain the Muslim governments’ responses to the Xinjiang issue – pri…
Assessing the Power of China: Insights from the Conceptual Thinking about Power
Public attitudes to China in the ‘Five Eyes: Unpacking views across the Anglosphere security community
China is an important security concern for the United States and its allies, including the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing group that is sometimes described as the core of the ‘Anglosphere’ security community. While we would expect securitising discourses at the elite level to reproduce some common perceptions of China, to what extent are attitudes to China shared across the publics in these countries? In this article, we unpack public attitudes t…
Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus
The paper presents an original corpus of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs press conferences. The dataset is a unique source of information on official positions and diplomatic narratives of China mapping almost two decades of its foreign policy discourse. The corpus contains almost 23,000 question – answer dyads from 2002 to 2020 ready to be used for analytical purposes. We argue the dataset is an important contribution to the scholarship …
Shifting power in Asia–Pacific? The rise of China, Sino-US competition and regional middle power allegiance
One of the most prominent debates in International Relations (IR) in recent years has been around the rise of China and the nature of the country's power. It is surprising, therefore, that while there are many books whose titles combine ‘China’ with the words ‘power’ or ‘rise’, in reality almost none address the issue of China's power as a central theme. Moreover, those few which do—for example, David Shambaugh's China goes global: the partial po…
Assessing the Power of China: Insights from the Conceptual Thinking about Power
Chinese Assertiveness in the South China Sea: Power Sources, Domestic Politics, and Reactive Foreign Policy
Shifting power in Asia–Pacific? The rise of China, Sino-US competition and regional middle power allegiance
One of the most prominent debates in International Relations (IR) in recent years has been around the rise of China and the nature of the country's power. It is surprising, therefore, that while there are many books whose titles combine ‘China’ with the words ‘power’ or ‘rise’, in reality almost none address the issue of China's power as a central theme. Moreover, those few which do—for example, David Shambaugh's China goes global: the partial po…
Friends or foes? How diverging views of communist past undermine the China-CEE ‘16+1 platform’
The BRI and China’s Soft Power in Europe: Why Chinese Narratives (Initially) Won
The article aims to contribute to our understanding of China’s soft power in Europe and the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in this regard. We conduct analyses of two leading newspapers in the United Kingdom, in Spain, and in Poland to discover how the BRI was framed there in the period from mid-2013 to mid-2017. The empirical results show that the media reported about the initiative quite positively – especially compared to the gene…
China and the Frustrated Region: Central and Eastern Europe’s Repeating Troubles with Great Powers
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) had few historical opportunities to interact with China, but with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the 16+1 platform, that changed dramatically in recent years. The article discusses recent development in the China-CEE relations with the aim of explaining why the CEE countries became excited about China initially, but also why this excitement led prevailingly to disappointment. It will be argued that the fru…
It’s the politics, stupid: China’s relations with Muslim countries on the background of Xinjiang crackdown
The goal of this paper is to present an explanation of why the Muslim governments largely abstained from even bringing up the Uyghur case with China, while the Rohingya issue provoked official condemnations by the governments in many Muslim countries. Although economic factors are most often consulted internationally, this article puts forward political factors as sufficient to explain the Muslim governments’ responses to the Xinjiang issue – pri…
Chinese Pride and European Prejudice
The Chinese government’s cover-up of the origins of the new coronavirus, and its more openly prideful and aggressive foreign and human rights policies, triggered a dramatic deterioration of foreign views of China in 2020. That year also witnessed a significant increase in anti-Chinese/Asian prejudice around the world. Could the former have shaped the latter? Drawing on theories of prejudice and ideology, and using an Autumn 2020 13-nation Europea…
Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus
The paper presents an original corpus of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs press conferences. The dataset is a unique source of information on official positions and diplomatic narratives of China mapping almost two decades of its foreign policy discourse. The corpus contains almost 23,000 question – answer dyads from 2002 to 2020 ready to be used for analytical purposes. We argue the dataset is an important contribution to the scholarship …
Worsening British views of China in 2020: Evidence from public opinion, parliament, and the media
The East Is Red…Again! How the Specters of Communism and Russia Shape Central and Eastern European Views of China
During the past decade, China has rapidly emerged as a major player in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Will it divide Europe? Might these formerly communist countries align themselves again with a communist superpower to their east? Or does their past experience of Russia and communism generate suspicions of China? This article explores what public opinion data from a fall 2020 survey of six CEE countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, P…
Diffusion of Influence? Detecting China’s Footprint in Foreign Policies of Other Countries
Willingness to Boycott Russian Goods in China: How Political Ideology Shapes Consumer Preferences in an Authoritarian Context
Who is likely to engage in Anti-Russian boycotts in China? While existing literature focuses on ethnocentrism and nationalism as drivers of political consumerism, this article explores political boycotts that contradict the dominant discourse of the Chinese Communist Party. Drawing on original survey data, the article uses two ideological dimensions—social authoritarianism and attitudes to economic organisation – to delineate three distinct ideol…
Public attitudes to China in the ‘Five Eyes: Unpacking views across the Anglosphere security community
China is an important security concern for the United States and its allies, including the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing group that is sometimes described as the core of the ‘Anglosphere’ security community. While we would expect securitising discourses at the elite level to reproduce some common perceptions of China, to what extent are attitudes to China shared across the publics in these countries? In this article, we unpack public attitudes t…
National Dependence and Public Perceptions: Understanding the Economic Determinants of Foreign Policy Preferences Toward China
The relationship between economic dependence and foreign influence has become an increasingly prominent topic in International Relations. However, academic studies and public discussion largely overlook that dependence could influence not only states’ official policies but also the foreign policy preferences of their populations. In addition, they simplistically assume that material dependence directly establishes influence without considering ad…
Identarian Atlanticism and foreign policy implications: A study of European public attitudes
Allies at Heart? A Study of Ideational Continentalism in Canadians’ Foreign Policy Attitudes
The United States has long represented one of Canada's primary international allies. This partnership has remained strong despite turbulent times in the relationship, such as the one brought forth by the Trump presidency. Our article seeks to understand the sources of such continuity through the lens of continentalism. While historical accounts of continentalism have portrayed it as a passive force stemming from Canada's material self-interest, s…
Does Populism Matter in EU–China Relations? The Cases of Italy and Czechia
This article investigates whether populism affects the foreign policy of European Union (EU) member states towards China and, if so, through what mechanisms. In order to answer this question, we examine the cases of Italy and Czechia, both of which went through turbulent relations with China in the recent decade whilst also experiencing several government changes between populist and non‐populist parties. Our analysis reveals that whilst populist…
How Viktor Orbán plays China: The hidden agency of ‘China’s best friend in the EU’
Agency amid asymmetry: How small European states shape relations with a rising China
Languages and Linkages: Explaining Diaspora Attitudes Toward the Ancestral Homeland
What explains the attitudes of diasporas toward their ancestral homeland? One answer suggests some pull toward the country of origin (“ancestral homeland”) based on a shared cultural identity. In contrast, another explanation looks at how host country (“contemporary homeland”) politics surrounding the “perpetual foreigners” can push the diaspora toward their ancestral homeland. In this paper, we recognize that the link between the diaspora and th…
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