Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jödicke, Ansgar

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By exploring the role of religion in transnational relations between Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and their surrounding neighbours Russia, Turkey, Iran and the EU, this volume describes and helps explain how transnational religious relationships intermingle with transnational political relationships in the South Caucasus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351797894
• Artikelnr.: 49041520

Autorenporträt

Ansgar Jödicke is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His areas of research are religion and politics, in particular political religious education (politics) in Europe and the relationship between religion and politics in the South Caucasus. Together with Alexander Agadjanian and Evert van der Zweerde, he recently edited the volume Religion, Nation and Democracy in the South Caucasus (2015). Ansgar Jödicke has coordinated several research projects in the South Caucasus and in Switzerland. Among them, the SCOPES project 'Religion and Soft Power. Religious Communities in the South Caucasus as Objects of External Influences' (2014-2017) led to the results published in this volume.

Inhaltsangabe

Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus: An Introduction
Part I: The Case of Georgia
Chapter 1: Turkish Soft Power Politics in Georgia: Making Sense of
Political and Cultural Implications
Chapter 2: Common Faith in Scrutiny: Orthodoxy as Soft Power in
Russia-Georgia Relations
Chapter 3: Iran's Soft Power Policy in Georgia
Part II: The Case of Azerbaijan
Chapter 4: Iranian Soft Power in Azerbaijan-Does Religion Matter?
Chapter 5: Examining Salafism in Azerbaijan: Transnational Connections and
Local Context
Chapter 6: Islam and Turkey's Soft Power in Azerbaijan: the Gülen Movement
Part III: The Case of Armenia
Chapter 7: Religion as a Factor in Kurdish Identity Discourse in Armenia
and Turkey
Chapter 8: Iran's Soft Power Policy in Armenia: Cultural Diplomacy and
Religion
Part IV: The EU - Russia Framework
Chapter 9: Face to Face with Conservative Religious Values: Assessing the
EU's Normative Impact in the South Caucasus
Chapter 10: Russia as a Counter-Normative Soft Power: Between Ideology and
Policy
Part V: Prospects
Chapter 11: Prospects for Thinking Soft Power beyond Joseph Nye