The Soft Power of Non-Western Small States

Autorentext

Sarina Theys is Lecturer in Diplomacy and International Affairs in the School of Law and Social Sciences at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. Her research interests include international relations, security and political power of non-Western small states and Pacific island states, and environmental and climate change in the Pacific. Her research has been published in International Affairs, International Environmental Agreement: Politics, Law and Economics, Journal of International Affairs and the Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific.

Klappentext

This book critically engages with the concepts of small states and soft power and advances a new approach to defining small states, a new conceptualisation of soft power, and a method for empirically analysing the exercise of soft power. It revisits the concepts of small states and soft power with a focus on Bhutan and Qatar.

Inhalt

List of Diagrams

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction

PART I: SMALL STATES AND SOFT POWER IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

2 Small States in International Relations

3 Soft Power in International Relations

PART II: BHUTAN, QATAR, AND SOFT POWER EXERCISE

4 Bhutan

5 Qatar

PART III: COMPARATIVE INSIGHTS AND CONCLUSION

6 Bhutan, Qatar, and Soft Power

7 Conclusion

Bibliography

Index