Sharpening sharp power: a reconceptualisation to understand foreign interference in non-liberal democratic states

• Main Author: Yeo, Jong Han
• Other Authors: Dylan Loh Ming Hui
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159262
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper attempts to account for foreign interference in non-liberal democratic states where existing concepts of state influence cannot. Specifically, it argues for a conceptual expansion of sharp power by introducing the new sub-concept of indirect sharp power, where states with non-democratic i...