The Gulf crisis: A lesson in reputation management
North Korean workers in the Gulf and Asia / Source: Wikipedia
By James M. Dorsey
Lurking below the surface of the Gulf crisis, are rival, yet troubled, attempts by Qatar and its detractors to use sports to boost soft power and/or launder tarnished images of their autocracies.
Ironically, the crisis threatens to have levelled the playing field in a bitter m…
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