For who? --- It makes me wonder who these well-cultivated and emphaised image and prestige metrics are trying to cater to: 1) (generally) is it fellow governments / their own common people / or the common people in other countries, and 2) given the difficulty of appeasing the entire globe, are (esp. smaller) governments more concerned with only trying and impressing world powers / only core strategic partners (though there is likely to be overlap with world powers for a lot of countries). Or is there something completely different at play here? This may be obvious to some more familiar with the subject matter, but I am personally curious how this topic is generally viewed.

Source author: Mamta Reid liveandsmile@hotmail.com