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Dominika Remžová is an ESRC-funded PhD researcher in Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. Working at the intersection of International Political Economy and Foreign Policy Analysis, her project examines the relationship between the positions of the Visegrád Four (V4) states - Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland - in global value chains and their respective foreign policies towards China and Taiwan. She is affiliated with the University's Taiwan Research Hub, where she serves as an Editor of its policy series.
Dominika holds a BA (Hons) degree in Chinese Studies (First Class) from the University of Manchester, an MA degree in Taiwan Studies (Distinction) from SOAS, University of London, and a Master of Social Science Research degree in Politics and International Relations (Distinction) from the University of Nottingham.
Dominika has extensive research experience in policy-oriented environments. She is a Research Fellow at the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS), Slovakia, where she focuses on political economy issues related to East Asia. Previously, she worked as a China Analyst and Editor at the Association for International Affairs (AMO), Czech Republic, specialising in the Chinese economy, with a particular focus on supply chains, electric vehicles, and critical raw materials. She has also held research positions at several other research centres and think tanks, including the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS), and the Global Taiwan Institute (GTI).
Expertise Summary
Primary research interests: Foreign policy (focus on China-Taiwan-EU and China-Taiwan-CEE relations); international, comparative, and historical political economy (focus on global supply and value chains, economic statecraft, and regionalism); green and industrial policies; dependent capitalism
Secondary research interests: Electoral and party politics of Taiwan; transitional and environmental justice
Research Summary
The research question at the core of Dominika's project is what shapes foreign policymaking in Central and Europe (CEE), with a particular focus on global supply and value chains as the main (though… read more
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The research question at the core of Dominika's project is what shapes foreign policymaking in Central and Europe (CEE), with a particular focus on global supply and value chains as the main (though not sole) variables of analysis. The project examines the V4 states and their evolving relations with China and Taiwan, paying special attention to the automotive and high-tech industries in the Czech Republic and Hungary. These have been selected as the primary country cases, with Slovakia and Poland providing additional comparative perspectives.
The empirical analysis addresses three inter-related questions: (1) to what extent has the V4's increasing engagement with Taiwan emerged as a response to its growing disengagement from China; (2) how do V4 states reconcile their strong trade dependencies on China (especially in terms of final demand exposure) with their growing trade and investment ties with Taiwan; and (3) what opportunities and challenges do these relationships present for the V4's green and digital transitions, as well as for their broader pursuit of higher value creation within global production networks.
Adopting a mixed-methods approach within a critical realist paradigm, Dominika's research seeks to demonstrate how states' core/semi-periphery/periphery positions within global value chains - together with other structural factors such as domestic institutional arrangements - both constrain and enable foreign policy choices, while accounting for the mediating role of elite agency. By foregrounding industry-level linkages and the interaction between structure and agency, her research aims to offer a geo-economic explanation for both the V4's converging and diverging approaches to China and Taiwan, thereby contributing to broader debates on the relationship between global production networks and foreign policy behaviour.