BOOK REVIEW: ČÍNSKA MÄKKÁ MOC A SLOVENSKÁ SKÚSENOSŤ (CHINESE SOFT POWER AND THE SLOVAK EXPERIENCE)

Scholarly attention to Chinese influence in Central and Eastern Europe has tended to gravitate toward larger states such as Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, often leaving Slovakia at the margins. Tomáš Dvorský’s monograph addresses this gap with a careful and well-organised study of how China deploys soft power in the Slovak Republic. Published in 2022 by the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice, the book spans 235 pages and is structured into three substantive chapters moving from theory to global strategy to a Slovak case study (Dvorský, 2022).