Involvement of the Gulf Cooperation Council States in Kosovo: development assistance, soft power, and neofundamentalism

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ZZ~YQrMSe9" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ZZ~YQrMSe9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2022.2128362" target="_blank" >10.1080/14683857.2022.2128362</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Involvement of the Gulf Cooperation Council States in Kosovo: development assistance, soft power, and neofundamentalism

Original language description

The development assistance activities of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have prompted debates and scrutiny of how the Gulf countries use assistance or aid for religious soft power goals, which has a potentially destabilizing effect on local religious communities. This article explores how the Gulf states provide development assistance and their potential motivations. Using Kosovo as a case to describe the techniques used in the field by the GCC charities and development agencies, the article finds that GCC agencies/charities&apos; activities in Kosovo are negligible in classical development sectors such as the transport, institutional, and social spheres; however, they are very active in promoting and financially supporting religious education, other religious activities, and the reconstruction of religious infrastructure. The article discusses the effects of the assistance on the local Muslim community and how the state reacted to the possible threats this assistance poses.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

ISSN

1468-3857

e-ISSN

1743-9639

Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

529-547

UT code for WoS article

000860059300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85139257235