Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus

ISBN-13: 9780367886844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 244 str.

Ansgar Jodicke

Opis

By exploring the role of religion in transnational relations between Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and their surrounding neighbours Russia, Turkey, Iran and the EU, this volume describes and helps explain how transnational religious relationships intermingle with transnational political relationships in the South Caucasus.

Spis treści

Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus: An Introduction

Part I: The Case of Georgia

Chapter 1: Turkish Soft Power Politics in Georgia: Making Sense of Political and Cultural Implications

Chapter 2: Common Faith in Scrutiny: Orthodoxy as Soft Power in Russia-Georgia Relations

Chapter 3: Iran’s Soft Power Policy in Georgia

Part II: The Case of Azerbaijan

Chapter 4: Iranian Soft Power in Azerbaijan—Does Religion Matter?

Chapter 5: Examining Salafism in Azerbaijan: Transnational Connections and Local Context

Chapter 6: Islam and Turkey’s Soft Power in Azerbaijan: the Gülen Movement

Part III: The Case of Armenia

Chapter 7: Religion as a Factor in Kurdish Identity Discourse in Armenia and Turkey

Chapter 8: Iran’s Soft Power Policy in Armenia: Cultural Diplomacy and Religion

Part IV: The EU – Russia Framework

Chapter 9: Face to Face with Conservative Religious Values: Assessing the EU’s Normative Impact in the South Caucasus

 Chapter 10: Russia as a Counter-Normative Soft Power: Between Ideology and Policy

 Part V: Prospects

Chapter 11: Prospects for Thinking Soft Power beyond Joseph Nye

 

　

 

O autorze

Ansgar Jödicke is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His areas of research are religion and politics, in particular political religious education (politics) in Europe and the relationship between religion and politics in the South Caucasus. Together with Alexander Agadjanian and Evert van der Zweerde, he recently edited the volume Religion, Nation and Democracy in the South Caucasus (2015). Ansgar Jödicke has coordinated several research projects in the South Caucasus and in Switzerland. Among them, the SCOPES project ‘Religion and Soft Power. Religious Communities in the South Caucasus as Objects of External Influences’ (2014–2017) led to the results published in this volume.