The survival of small states in the Gulf region: COVID-19, pandemic politics and the future of niche diplomacy. [PDF]
Int Polit (Hague), 2023 The Gulf is increasingly recognized as one of the most dynamic and unstable regions in the international system. Within the region, the survival of small states can no longer be taken for granted and power relations are conflictual. The hegemonic ambitions of larger regional state actors draw small states into a contested orbit and emphasize the ...
Milton-Edwards B.
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Health as niche diplomacy: assessing design and practices of Brazilian health diplomacy at the beginning of the 21st century [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 2019 The paper explores Brazilian health diplomacy since 2000 by identifying aspects of design and practice employed by the actors involved. The Brazilian engagement is analyzed through the concept of niche diplomacy, with a focus on the use of technical ...
Nicole Gayard
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Oman’s Niche Diplomacy: Middle Power Strategies in a Shifting Middle East
Social SciencesDespite being located in one of the world’s most unstable regions—characterized by persistent tensions, turmoil, and conflict—the Sultanate of Oman has successfully maintained a policy of neutrality and adeptly assumed the complex role of mediator, both ...
Mordechai Chaziza, Carmela Lutmar
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Saudi Arabia’s Niche Diplomacy: A Middle Power’s Strategy for Global Influence
WorldSaudi Arabia has emerged as a key middle power, leveraging niche diplomacy to expand its global influence. This study examines how the Kingdom strategically employs mediation, religious diplomacy, humanitarian aid, energy leadership, and sports diplomacy
Mordechai Chaziza, Carmela Lutmar
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Between Constraint and Opportunity: Egypt’s Niche Diplomacy in a Shifting Global Order
WorldThis study examines Egypt’s evolving role as a middle power through the lens of niche diplomacy. It analyzes how Cairo leverages its strategic advantages to assert influence within an increasingly multipolar international order.
Mordechai Chaziza, Carmela Lutmar
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The UAE’s niche diplomacy in the Middle East: authoritarian strategies of a middle power
Global Security: Health, Science and PolicyThis study analyzes how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) leverages niche diplomacy as an authoritarian middle power to expand its global influence, construct normative legitimacy, and navigate structural constraints in the international system. Focusing on
Mordechai Chaziza, Carmela Lutmar
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America First: The Global Trump at Six Months [PDF]
The School of Public Policy Publications, 2017 For Donald Trump ‘America First’ means ‘America First.’ Canada and likeminded nations will have to get used to it. Canada will have to actively engage with Congress, the states and the private and public interests that drive the American agenda.
Colin Robertson
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Do MENA countries practice digital diplomacy? An analysis of their embassies’ websites in Spain
Communication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2023 This research carries out an analysis of the websites published by MENA countries’ embassies with a presence in Spain, in order to understand whether they practice digital diplomacy. Such activity is a low-cost, wide-ranging public diplomacy tool.
María-Luisa Azpíroz
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Qatar and the Knowledge-Based Economy: A New Model for Developmental State [PDF]
دولتپژوهی, 2022 Diversification of economic models is an Inevitable Necessity for Countries with one-sided political economy. Essentially, economic diversity allows governments to turn threats into opportunities and to use economic variables in the Power manufacturing ...
Ehsan Mozdkhah, Somayeh Hamidi
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Ancestral Tourism: A Novel Market of Isfahan Tourism [PDF]
جغرافیا و برنامهریزی محیطی, 2023 Searching in family roots and traveling to discover genealogy with a leisure motivation is called tourism, which can not only create opportunities to introduce and preserve family heritage, but also diversify the tourism market. The present study pursued
Neda Torabi Farsani +2 more
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