Influences of functional, aesthetic, normative, and emotional dimensions of the country image on the popular support for the UAE foreign strategy among the arab community - Malaysia

The interests and priorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) foreign policy have always stemmed from objective circumstances related to its relations with the world and its strong ties with international parties to achieve a state of political stability and occupy a prominent position among the people of the world. The problem of the study deals with how the different dimensions of the image of the UAE can contribute to the emotional dimension of individuals and whether they affect their support for the foreign strategy of the United Arab Emirates among Arab residents in Malaysia. The study's main objective is to investigate the impact of the functional, aesthetic, normative and emotional dimensions of the state's image on popular support for the
UAE's foreign strategy among the Arab community in Malaysia by studying the mediating role of the emotional dimension in his relationship. The study takes a quantitative approach because it focuses on objective measurements and statistical, mathematical and numerical analysis of data collected through questionnaires and
surveys or the processing of pre-existing statistical data using computational techniques. A questionnaire was created from literary works and modified to suit the study conditions. The target sample size is 370 but the valid data set has 315 samplesthe results of the popular support variable show good predictive ability and great
predictive importance. The model can explain 70.6% of the change in popular support for the external strategies adopted by the UAE towards the Arab community in Malaysia, which has a great relationship with the behavior of the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs towards its Arab nationals outside the country. The study reached
many results, among other things, the most important of which is that the UAE occupies a strong position in the global economy and enjoys a very stable political system. In addition, the UAE possesses high moral standards concerning its relations with the world, which qualifies it to occupy a prominent position socially and politically in the international community. The UAE is also a country that respects the
values and principles of other people.