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

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 policy goals.

Building on two main perspectives to define small states – the objective approach and th...