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Large quantities of China's Sinopharm vaccines provide Serbia with a surplus of vaccines from other manufacturers. This creates an opportunity for president Aleksandar Vučić to donate vaccines, to increase soft power credentials and political sway (Photo: Reuters)

Kosovo: the goal of Serbia's global 'vaccine diplomacy'

Foreign policy wonks have already grown accustomed to the term vaccine diplomacy. The term refers to governments trying to increase their prestige and influence by donating vaccines to foreign countries in the age of Covid-19.

This policy has been associated with great powers like China,

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Vuk Vuksanovic is a PhD researcher in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), an associate of LSE IDEAS, LSE’s foreign policy think tank, and a researcher at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP).

Large quantities of China's Sinopharm vaccines provide Serbia with a surplus of vaccines from other manufacturers. This creates an opportunity for president Aleksandar Vučić to donate vaccines, to increase soft power credentials and political sway (Photo: Reuters)

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Vuk Vuksanovic is a PhD researcher in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), an associate of LSE IDEAS, LSE’s foreign policy think tank, and a researcher at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP).

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