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The Soft Power of Non-Western Small States: The Cases of Bhutan and Qatar book cover

1st Edition

The Soft Power of Non-Western Small States The Cases of Bhutan and Qatar

By Sarina Theys Copyright 2025
168 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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 and their approach to exercise soft power to achieve their foreign... Read more

List of Diagrams                                                                                                                                                    

List of Illustrations  

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

 

Biography

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, Nature Climate Change, and the Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific.

“This important book on the soft power of Bhutan and Qatar deserves a wide readership among students of small state diplomacy.”
Anders Wivel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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