COVID Diplomacy in the Era of Pandemic Response: The Case of United Arab Emirates

Journal of International Women’s Studies

This article explores how foreign aid and COVID-19 assistance, including medical supplies and COVID-19 vaccines’ supply, have created a new source of soft power for the UAE. It presents an overview of UAE’s history of humanitarianism, conceptual and theoretical framework, methodology, factors enabling UAE’s COVID diplomacy, and the UAE’s contribution towards fighting COVID worldwide.

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