Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Presents Qatar's soft power approach and its international alliances
- Examines how creating a national brand helped Qatar to absorb the Gulf crisis of 2017
- Discusses Qatar’s role in the region
Part of the book series: Contributions to International Relations (CIR)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This book further scrutinizes Qatar’s role in the region and all questions related to this role through the lenses of its nation brand. The book provides explanations for the success of Qatar in absorbing the “shock and awe” in the early stage of the last Gulf crisis, presenting various arguments on how establishing a nation brand helped Qatar to deal with the crisis successfully.
The book follows an original approach that views the Qatari case from a scientific perspective, investigating the art of nation branding. It will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of international relations, psychology, political science, and journalism, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of soft power, nation branding, Middle East studies, and diplomacy.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Azzam Amin is an assistant professor in psychology at the School of Psychology and Social Work at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar). He holds a PhD in cross-cultural and social psychology from the Université Lumière, Lyon 2 (France). He also served as an associate professor (maître de conférences) at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Department of Psychology at the Catholic University of Lyon (France). Amin has been a member of the Social Psychology Research Group of the University of Lyon II for eight years (2008-2016). Since 2001, he has been a member of the International Association for Intercultural Research, based in Geneva, Switzerland (L'Association Internationale pour la Recherche Inter-Culturelle), and was a member of the Association of Scientific Bureau during the periods (2005-2007) and (2010-2012). He has published numerous articles and research on identity and belonging, intolerance and sectarianism, culture, social integration, and cross-cultural psychology in Arab and international journals, including in Qatar, Switzerland, Belgium, France, and Canada, among others. Amin further is a member of the editorial committee of the Hermon Center for Contemporary Studies. He was awarded the Arab Prize for Social and Human Sciences for research published in Arab and foreign journals for the academic year 2016/2017, presented by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.
Nourollah Zarrinabadi is a researcher at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar). His research includes research on education and political psychology. He has published more than 40 ISI articles and three books with Springer and Palgrave Macmillan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Qatar’s Nation Branding and Soft Power
Book Subtitle: Exploring the Effects on National Identity and International Stance
Authors: Nawaf Al-Tamimi, Azzam Amin, Nourollah Zarrinabadi
Series Title: Contributions to International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24651-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24650-0Published: 02 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24653-1Published: 02 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-24651-7Published: 31 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-5061
Series E-ISSN: 2731-507X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 92
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, International Relations, International Relations Theory