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Qatar - Small State, Big Politics (Paperback, With a New Preface)
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Qatar - Small State, Big Politics (Paperback, With a New Preface)
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Discovery Miles 4 850
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The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million
inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an
independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas
wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a
disproportionately large influence on regional and even
international politics. Qatar is, as Mehran Kamrava explains in
this knowledgeable and incisive account of the emirate, a "tiny
giant": although severely lacking in most measures of state power,
it is highly influential in diplomatic, cultural, and economic
spheres. Kamrava presents Qatar as an experimental country,
building a new society while exerting what he calls "subtle power."
It is both the headquarters of the global media network Al Jazeera
and the site of the U.S. Central Command's Forward Headquarters and
the Combined Air Operations Center. Qatar has been a major player
during the European financial crisis, it has become a showplace for
renowned architects, several U.S. universities have established
campuses there, and it will host the FIFA World Cup in 2022.
Qatar's effective use of its subtle power, Kamrava argues,
challenges how we understand the role of small states in the global
system. Given the Gulf state's outsized influence on regional and
international affairs, this book is a critical and timely account
of contemporary Qatari politics and society.
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