Máté Szalai

The Foreign Policy of Smaller Gulf States (eBook, ePUB)

Size, Power, and Regime Stability in the Middle East

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies how smaller Gulf states managed to increase their influence in the Middle East, oftentimes capitalising on their smallness as a foreign policy tool. By establishing a novel theoretical framework, this study identifies specific ways in which perceptual smallness affect power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000452716
• Artikelnr.: 62497171

Autorenporträt

Máté Szalai is a senior lecturer at Corvinus University of Budapest and a senior research fellow at the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary. He was a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Besides the general political, economic and social developments of the Middle Eastern and North African region, his primary fields of research include Small State Studies, the Persian Gulf, and the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts. He is co-author of the book entitled The Caliphate of the Islamic State, published in 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The four types of state size and the foreign policy of
small states 2. Applying small state theory to the MENA region 3. The
relative and normative size of smaller Gulf states 4. Absolute size,
perceptual size, and regime security in the smaller Gulf states 5. The
foreign and security policy history of smaller Gulf states (1968-2011) 6.
Smaller Gulf states in the age of regional uncertainty (2011-2021)
Conclusion - Size, power and regime stability in the Gulf

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Introduction 1. The four types of state size and the foreign policy of small states 2. Applying small state theory to the MENA region 3. The relative and normative size of smaller Gulf states 4. Absolute size, perceptual size, and regime security in the smaller Gulf states 5. The foreign and security policy history of smaller Gulf states (1968-2011) 6. Smaller Gulf states in the age of regional uncertainty (2011-2021) Conclusion - Size, power and regime stability in the Gulf