Destined Statecraft Eurasian Small Power Politics and Strategic Cultures in Geopolitical Shifts /

• Main Author: Wong, Pak Nung (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: International relations.; Comparative politics.; International Relations.; Comparative Politics.

'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 unob...

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.