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  title info:
    title: Destined Statecraft
    sub title: Eurasian Small Power Politics and Strategic Cultures in Geopolitical Shifts
  name:
    name part: Wong, Pak Nung.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIII, 236 p. 35 illus., 25 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 'Destined Statecraft enriches our understanding of global affairs by presenting a perspective where small powers are no longer in the periphery, but take up the main narrative. This standpoint is all the more valuable in an age where the proactive decision-making of small powers often goes unobser ved. Professor Wong's Destined Statecraft offers a fresh lens for discerning world issues, helping to extend the reader's vision beyond the exterior towards a greater perception of the world we live in.' -Mr Sungnam Lim, Vice-Minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea This book considers the post-2010 strategic shifts in the Anglo-American geopolitical approach to Asia as a pivotal new strategy in the U.S. geo- strategic containment plan, which has been reformed to rebalance the rise of China and the Eurasian heartland in the course of the two decades since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. At this critical global-historical juncture, the People's Republic of China has also devised a new counter-containment endeavor - the 'One Belt One Road' initiative, which aims to re-connect it with all the countries on the Eurasian landmass, forming a single community. Against this backdrop of the intensifying geopolitical and geo-economic competition between the U.S. and China, this book calls for the revival and reinvigoration of selected Eurasian small powers' embedded geopolitical, political-economic and strategic-cultural structures. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's notion of habitus, the book argues that these self- changing and unceasingly structuring structures do not only constrain and limit, but also enable and galvanize small powers' strategists and policy- makers to proactively generate creative means-and-ends calculations, conduct prudent security assessments, and devise measured and responsive strategic deployments. In this context, the book proposes that the small powers return to their own religious, cultural and intellectual roots. …
  table of contents: Introduction: Remaking the Small Powers' Destines -- The Small Powers in World Politics: Outline of a Theory of African- Asian Critical Realism -- U.S.-China Containment and Counter-Containment in Southeast Asia: The 'Battle' for Myanmar (Burma) -- Strategic Cultures as 'the Powers': Kautilya's Hindu Statecraft and the 'String of Pearls' in the Indian Ocean -- Chaperoning Thai Populist Democracy: Habitus, Structure and Technique of King Bhumibol Adulyadej's Statecraft (1946-2016) -- Practicing People's Diplomacy over Disputed Waters: Peaceable Intervention across the South China Sea -- How would China Approach the European Rim-land? The Pivots of Poland and the United Kingdom -- Conclusion: The Small Will Do What They Can! -- References.
  note: by Pak Nung Wong.
  subject:
    topic: International relations
  subject:
    topic: Comparative politics
  subject:
    topic: International Relations
  subject:
    topic: Comparative Politics
  classification: JZ2-6530
  classification: 327
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      title: Springer eBooks
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