CEIAS is implementing a project studying the sources of public attraction towards China in Europe.
CHARM will study the driving forces behind public attraction toward the West’s foremost authoritarian challenge, China. It will employ a mixed-method approach based on public opinion survey data and case studies of three selected EU countries (Germany, Hungary, and Slovakia). CHARM aims to explain sources of public attraction toward China among some audiences in the EU, draw theoretical implications for the concept of attraction in IR, and offer an analytical framework for policymakers to conduct more efficient public diplomacy. The project builds on previous scholarship but goes beyond by putting the sources of attraction at the center of its interest, studying them comprehensively with sophisticated methods, and combining systematic empirical research with conceptual clarity.
Donor: Funded by the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia under the project No. 09I03-03-V04-00595.
Duration: August 2024-July 2026
Contact: Richard Turcsányi (turcsanyi@ceias.eu)
