The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power How States Use Religion in Foreign Policy

Peter Mandaville is Senior Advisor for Religion & Inclusive Societies at the United States Institute of Peace and Professor of International Affairs in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. From 2015-2016 he was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Religion and Global Affairs at the U.S. State Department. Previous government experience includes serving as a member of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Policy Planning Staff from 2011-2012 where he helped shape the U.S. response to the Arab Spring.

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List of Contributors

1. Thinking about Religion and Religious Soft Power in International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis
Peter Mandaville and Jon Hoffman

2. Tragedy or Irony: Geopolitical Grand Narratives, Religious Outreach, and US Soft Power
Peter S. Henne and Gregorio Bettiza

3. “Putin-phonia”: Harnessing Russian Orthodoxy to Advance Russia's Secular Foreign Policy
Robert Blitt

4. Chinese Buddhism and Soft Power and Sharp Power: Geopolitical Strategy and Modality of Religion
Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank

5. Turkey's Ambivalent Religious Soft Power in the Illiberal Turn
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk

6. The Modi Government and the Uses and Limits of India's Religious Soft Power
Sumit Ganguly

7. Shi'i Diplomacy: Religious Identity and Foreign Policy in the Axis of Resistance
Edward Wastnidge

8. Hassan II and the Foundations of Moroccan Religious Soft Power
Ann Wainscott

9. Religious Diplomacy in the Arab Gulf and the Politics of Moderate Islam
Annelle Sheline

10. Indonesian Islam as Model for the World? Diplomacy, Soft Power, and the Geopolitics of 'Moderate Islam'
James Hoesterey

11. Moderation as Jordanian Soft Power: Islam and Beyond
Stacey Gutkowski

12. Israel's Religious Soft Power: Within and Beyond Judaism
Claudia Baumgart-Ochse

13. Soft Power of the Catholic Papacy
Timothy Byrnes

14. 'Brazil Above Everything or God Above Everyone?' The Sources of Brazil's Religious Soft Power
Guilherme Casarões and Amy Erica Smith

15. Religious Soft Power: Promises, Limits, and Ways Forward
Gregorio Bettiza and Peter S. Henne