Peter Mandaville Discusses Religious Soft Power

Featuring: Peter Mandaville

July 7, 2025

Published in Politics & Rights Review, this article by Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville explores the growing role of religion in geopolitics. Drawing on the contributions from the volume The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power: How States Use Religion in Foreign Policy (2023), which he edited, Mandaville examines how religion is reemerging as a strategic instrument of statecraft among major global powers. 

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