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

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Title/Author:	Destined Statecraft/ by Pak Nung Wong.
Reminder of title:	Eurasian Small Power Politics and Strategic Cultures in Geopolitical Shifts /
Author:	Wong, Pak Nung.
Description:	XXIII, 236 p. 35 illus., 25 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	International relations. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6563-7
ISBN:	9789811065637

Destined Statecraft = Eurasian Small Power Politics and Strategic Cultures in Geopolitical Shifts /
Wong, Pak Nung.

Destined StatecraftEurasian Small Power Politics and Strategic Cultures in Geopolitical Shifts /[electronic resource] :by Pak Nung Wong. - 1st ed. 2018. - XXIII, 236 p. 35 illus., 25 illus. in color.online resource.

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.

‘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. It also argues for the need to rediscover their own strategic cultures as an essential means of re-inventing and implementing their own unique models of national development. As a substantial contribution to the subfields of small power politics and strategic cultures in international relations, the book marks a paradigm shift in both theory and practice. Exploring historical case studies from such diverse African, Asian and European powers as the Philippines, Liberia, Myanmar, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, Germany, Japan, Indonesia, Russia, the European Union, Ukraine, Poland and the United Kingdom as well as China, the book presents engaging dialogues with a wealth of classical and contemporary Western and non-Western strategic thinkers, including: Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Halford Mackinder, Kautilya, King Solomon, Li Zongwu, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Karl Haushofer, Carl Schmitt and the Malayo-Polynesian datu, as well as John Mearsheimer. In light of the post- 2017 U.S. ‘America First’ foreign policy agenda, this book represents an essential guide for small powers’ strategists, foreign policy-makers, security practitioners and national development planners – introducing them to a broader spectrum of strategic options that will help them not just survive, but thrive in the constantly shifting geopolitical currents of our time.

ISBN: 9789811065637

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-10-6563-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

554886
International relations.

LC Class. No.: JZ2-6530

Dewey Class. No.: 327

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