Religious Narratives and Russia's Soft Power in the Middle East

The article investigates how Russian state and non-state actors promote religious narratives in the Middle East and what influence these narratives have on foreign policy. Adopting the interpretivist perspective, it combines critical discourse analysis and process tracing for the period 2011-2018. T...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Europe-Asia studies 2022-07, Vol.74 (6), p.1006-1027
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