Description
Mediation is one of the tools that countries use to highlight their soft power in a way that serves their interests and enhances their position regionally and internationally, in a relentless effort to secure their strategic depth through international and regional partnerships that are reflected in their foreign policy. (Joseph Nye. 2008) These mediations have different effects related to the normative, relative, and perceptual size of states, as stated in Matthew Slay’s book on the complex size model of the foreign Policy of Gulf small states.
These effects vary according to the context in which they are presented in the analysis of foreign policy, and the behavior of states can be studied by analyzing their diplomatic activity at various levels, international and regional. In the Qatari model, there are several factors, some of which are linked to the theory of neoclassical realism, and some of which are linked to the model of soft power and public diplomacy. Mediation also poses multiple challenges at the regional and international levels, in its theoretical and analytical dimensions.
This paper relies primarily on defining the complex size model with its relativeness to Mediations module of Qatar and highlighting the comparative between Qatar and Oman mediation style. The originality of this paper is in the comparison between Oman and Qatar mediation or facilitation approach depending on the primary data collected by the author through interviews and officials statements.
