Jödicke Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-79790-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 258 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

In the Caucasus region, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and their powerful neighbours Russia, Turkey, Iran and the EU negotiate their future policies and spheres of influences. This volume explores the role of religion in the South Caucasus to describe and explain how transnational religious relationships intermingle with transnational political relationships. The concept of ‘soft power’ is the heuristic starting point of this important investigation to define the importance of religion in the region.

Drawing on a prestigious three-year project supported by the Swiss National Foundation, the book brings together academics from the South Caucasus and across Europe to offer original empirical research and contributions from experienced researchers from political science, history, and oriental studies.

This book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of post-Soviet studies, international relations, religious studies and political science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jödicke, Ansgar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus: An Introduction

Ansgar Jödicke

Part I: The Case of Georgia

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

Vahram Ter-Matevosyan

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

Salome Minesashvili

Chapter 3: Iran’s Soft Power Policy in Georgia

Mariam Gabedava and Koba Turmanidze

Part II: The Case of Azerbaijan

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

Anar Valiyev

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

Kamal Gasimov

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

Fuad Aliyev

Part III: The Case of Armenia

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

Lia Evoyan and Tatevik Manukyan

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

Tatevik Mkrtchyan

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

Eiki Berg and Alar Kilp

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

Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk

Part V: Prospects

Chapter 11: Prospects for Thinking Soft Power beyond Joseph Nye

Andrey Makarychev

Über Autor(innen)

Ansgar Jödicke holds a PhD in the Study of Religion (Zurich 1997). He is senior lecturer at the University of Fribourg (Department of Social Sciences). Ansgar Jödicke coordinated several projects in the South Caucasus. He is currently leading the SCOPES project "Religion and Soft Power. Religious Communities in the South Caucasus as Objects of External Influences" and he is working in the EU-FP7 project ISSICEU.