Status and Foreign Policy Change in Small States: Qatar’s Emergence in Perspective
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Peer-reviewed
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Mohammadzadeh, B
Abstract
Small states are just as easily seduced by status and glory as other states. When conceived as situated in a stratified international society, small states acquire an inherent tendency to overcome their disadvantage in conventional power terms through the pursuit of status. Hence, it is precisely because of their position in the international hierarchy, not in spite of it, that strategic ideas based on state size stimulate foreign policy change in small states. This mechanism provides an explanation to the question why the small state of Qatar has pursued such a high-profile diplomatic strategy since its emergence in the late 1990s.
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status, hierarchy, small state, Qatar, foreign policy change
Journal Title
International Spectator
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0393-2729
1751-9721
1751-9721
Volume Title
52
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Taylor & Francis