by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Vision 2030 & Soft Power
⚡ TL;DRQatar’s strategy amounts to a coherent playbook for a small state with a large resource: monetise the resource at the lowest possible cost, own the route to market rather than just the resource, convert surplus into diversified financial assets, buy...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Vision 2030 & Soft Power
⚡ TL;DRThe headline measure of diversification — the hydrocarbon share of gross domestic product — has fallen, and it is the wrong measure. Most of Qatar’s non-hydrocarbon economy is construction, services and public administration funded by...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Vision 2030 & Soft Power
⚡ TL;DRQatar Foundation imported entire university programmes rather than building institutions from nothing, concentrating international branch campuses, research institutes, schools and a science park in a single district. The approach bought credibility and...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Vision 2030 & Soft Power
⚡ TL;DRQatar has made mediation a central instrument of foreign policy, hosting talks and channels involving parties that do not speak to each other directly. Supporters describe this as a small state making itself useful and indispensable; critics argue that...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Vision 2030 & Soft Power
⚡ TL;DRQatar National Vision 2030 is a four-pillar framework published in 2008 covering human, social, economic and environmental development, implemented through successive national development strategies. Like most national visions it is stronger on aspiration...
