Destined statecraft: Eurasian small power politics and strategic cultures in geopolitical shifts

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"About the Book" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Book Review" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "1 Introduction: Remaking the Small Powers’ Destines" -- "Abstract" -- "1.1...

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Main Author: Wong, Pak-Nung 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Singapore Springer Singapore Pte. Limited 2017
In:Year: 2017
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Eurasia / Small state / Foreign policy / Geopolitics
Further subjects:B Geopolitics-Eurasia
B Electronic books
B Eurasia-Politics and government
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Summary:"About the Book" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Book Review" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "1 Introduction: Remaking the Small Powers’ Destines" -- "Abstract" -- "1.1 The Melian Fate Reconsidered" -- "1.2 The Problem: Destined Statecraft—Optimal Fate-Remaking" -- "1.3 Shifting Poles: Conceptualizing an Emerging Global Order" -- "1.3.1 The ‘One Belt One Road’ Initiative: Background, Goals and Strategies" -- "1.3.2 Existing Approaches of the OBOR Initiative" -- "1.3.2.1 Critical Constructivism" -- "1.3.2.2 Defensive Realism" -- "1.3.2.3 Liberal Institutionalism" -- "1.3.2.4 Global Financial Capitalism" -- "1.3.3 Global Financial Leninism: My Positional Approach of OBOR" -- "1.4 The OBOR’s Challenge to the Small Powers: Hypothesis and Questions" -- "1.5 The Key Argument: Destined Agency—Go with the Flows" -- "1.6 The Habitus Shift in International Relations" -- "1.7 Visualizing the Small Power Politics in Plate Tectonics Imagery" -- "1.8 Book Plan" -- "References" -- "2 The Small Powers in World Politics: Outline of a Theory of African-Asian Critical Realism" -- "Abstract" -- "2.1 Introduction" -- "2.2 Small Power Politics: Theoretical Issues" -- "2.2.1 Major Paradigms of Small Power Politics" -- "2.2.2 Towards an African-Asian Critical Realism" -- "2.2.3 Definition of Small Power Politics" -- "2.3 African and Asian Small Power Politics in Global Context: Empirical Issues" -- "2.3.1 Different Trajectories Towards the Great Power-Hood: USA and China" -- "2.3.1.1 The Making of the Post-cold War US Global Hegemony" -- "2.3.1.2 The Rise of the Post-millennial China as a ‘Great Power’" -- "2.3.1.3 USA Post-cold War Containment Strategy Towards China" -- "2.3.2 African and Asian Small Power Politics: Liberia and the Philippines".
"2.3.2.1 Behind the Nobel Peace Prize: Liberian Pathway of Underdevelopment" -- "2.3.2.2 Hedging Great Powers: Repertoire of Philippine Versatile Diplomacy" -- "2.4 Conclusion: Small Power Politics as Practice of Statecraft" -- "References" -- "3 USA–China Containment and Counter-Containment in Southeast Asia: The ‘Battle’ for Myanmar (Burma)" -- "Abstract" -- "3.1 Introduction" -- "3.2 Strategic Issue I: Worldview, Rationale and Objective of the US Containment" -- "3.2.1 The Making of Anglo-American Geopolitical Realism I: Mackinder’s Pivot of the Heartland" -- "3.2.2 The Making of Anglo-American Geopolitical Realism II: Spykman’s Quest for US-Centric Global Balance of Power" -- "3.3 Strategic Issue II: US Containment Policy and China’s Response After Second World War" -- "3.3.1 US Containment Strategy and the ‘Washington Consensus’" -- "3.3.2 China’s Counter-Containment Strategy and the ‘Beijing Consensus’" -- "3.4 Small Power Politics in the USA–China Relations: The Case of Myanmar" -- "3.4.1 USA–China Containment and Counter-Containment Through the Lens of Sun Tzu" -- "3.4.2 Myanmar—Where China Jail-Broke US Containment" -- "3.4.3 The New US Containment Since Obama" -- "3.5 Conclusion and Policy Implications" -- "References" -- "4 Strategic Cultures as ‘the Powers’: Kautilya’s Hindu Statecraft and the ‘String of Pearls’ in the Indian Ocean" -- "Abstract" -- "4.1 Introduction" -- "4.2 Key Theoretical Issue: What Is Strategic Culture?" -- "4.2.1 Three Generations of Theory" -- "4.2.2 Strategic Culture as Context: A Review" -- "4.2.3 Strategic Culture as Habitus: A Critique" -- "4.3 Strategic Cultures as ‘the Powers’" -- "4.3.1 State-Centrism as Epistemology-Cum-Ontology" -- "4.3.2 The ‘Deep State’ Methodological Challenge" -- "4.3.2.1 Challenge I: Sovereign-Centrism
"4.3.2.2 Challenge II: Decisionism" -- "4.3.2.3 Challenge III: Confidentiality" -- "4.3.3 Strategic Cultures as ‘the Powers’: An Outline" -- "4.4 Generating Indian Strategic Culture: Kautilya’s Hindu Statecraft and the ‘String of Pearls’" -- "4.4.1 Kautilya’s ‘Double Policy’" -- "4.4.2 The Mandala-like Bi-Centric International System" -- "4.4.3 The Formation of the ‘String of Pearls’ in the Indian Ocean Region" -- "4.4.3.1 The Enduring Structural Dilemma in the Pan-Hindu Caste System" -- "4.4.3.2 Sri Lanka–China Relations Since 2007" -- "4.4.3.3 Rise of Communism and Nepal After 2008" -- "4.4.3.4 Rise of Hindu Nationalism and India–Pakistan Tensions" -- "4.4.3.5 Anti-Hindu Violence and Strained Bangladesh–India Relations" -- "4.4.3.6 Indian Responses to the ‘String of Pearls’" -- "4.5 Conclusion" -- "References" -- "5 Chaperoning Thai Populist Democracy: Habitus, Structure and Technique of King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s Statecraft (1946–2016)" -- "Abstract" -- "5.1 Introduction" -- "5.2 Restoring Royal Sovereignty: King Bhumibol’s Pathway to Be the Thai Sovereign" -- "5.2.1 Phase I: Rebuilding Royal Authority (1946–1970)" -- "5.2.2 Phase II: Uplifting the Royal Power over Military Power (1970–1990)" -- "5.2.3 Phase III: The Sovereign Who Constitutionalized the Chaperoned Democracy (1997–2016)" -- "5.3 Chaperoning the Thai ‘Thick-Dark’ Democracy: An Exposition" -- "5.3.1 Western Democracy—A Political-Economic System Preserving Capitalism" -- "5.3.2 Resilience of the ‘Sakdina’ Habitus" -- "5.3.3 Thai ‘Thick-Dark’ Democracy: A Post-imperial Chinese Theorization" -- "5.4 Thai Rice Political Economy: Historical Formation and the Populist Policy Challenge" -- "5.4.1 Early Formation of the Ethnic Monopoly in the Thai Rice Industry
"5.4.2 Post- Second World War Ethnic Division of Labour and Thai National Security" -- "5.4.3 Rise of Populist Democracy and Rice Policy Change Since the 1990s" -- "5.4.3.1 Rice Policy Before 2000" -- "5.4.3.2 Rice Policy After 2000" -- "5.5 Bloodless Coup: Technique of Chaperoning Thai Populist Democracy" -- "5.5.1 Background of the 2014 Coup" -- "5.5.2 Two Phases of Thai Coups" -- "5.5.3 ‘Law/Force Indistinction’ as the Gist of German Coup Technique" -- "5.5.4 Technique of Bloodless Coup: Rotation of Judicial Coup and Military Coup" -- "5.5.4.1 Step I: Judicial Coup" -- "5.5.4.2 Step II: Military Coup" -- "5.6 Conclusion" -- "References" -- "6 Practicing People’s Diplomacy Over Disputed Waters: Peaceable Intervention Across the South China Sea" -- "Abstract" -- "6.1 Introduction" -- "6.2 Mimesis in Pre-Second World War German Strategic Culture" -- "6.2.1 First Model/Rival: Halford Mackinder’s English School of Geopolitics" -- "6.2.2 Second Model/Rival: Karl Haushofer’s German School of Geopolitik" -- "6.2.3 Third Model/Rival: Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the ‘Great Space’ (Groβraum)" -- "6.2.4 Three Models/Rivals Compared" -- "6.3 Mimesis for Peace: Outline of a Theory of ‘People’s Diplomacy’" -- "6.3.1 Two Ethics of Mimetic Peace" -- "6.3.2 ‘People’s Diplomacy’: Outline of a Theory of Peaceable Practice" -- "6.4 ‘People’s Diplomacy’ Across the Disputed South China Sea" -- "6.4.1 Background of the Philippines–China Maritime Dispute" -- "6.4.2 The Philippines as an Archipelagic Power" -- "6.4.2.1 The Question of the ‘Archipelagic Power’ in Geopolitics" -- "6.4.2.2 The Austronesian Colonial Strategic Culture" -- "6.4.2.3 ‘Datu’ as the Malayo-Polynesian Geostrategic Type" -- "6.4.3 People’s Diplomacy to De-escalate the China–Philippines Tensions" -- "6.4.3.1 The Problem: Philippine Energy Security Crisis
"6.4.3.2 The Seven Stages in the US ‘Pivot to Asia’ Policy" -- "6.4.3.3 Peaceable Public Engagement Through Knowledge Transfer" -- "6.5 Conclusion" -- "References" -- "7 How Would China Approach the European Rimland? The Pivots of Poland and the UK" -- "Abstract" -- "7.1 Introduction: Poland and the UK as Pivots in European Rimland" -- "7.2 The Changing Geopolitical Structures of Europe Since 2006" -- "7.2.1 The 2006 Ukraine Gas Crisis and the EU–Russia Relational Downturn" -- "7.2.2 A Miscalculated Eurasian Small Power: Ukraine and the 2014 Crimean Crisis" -- "7.3 How Would China Approach Poland?" -- "7.3.1 The ‘Logics of the Powers’ as Strategic Habitus" -- "7.3.2 Stages and Structures in Poland–China Relations Since the 1990s" -- "7.3.3 Polish Strategic Habitus: The Greater Poland’s Eastern Policy" -- "7.3.4 Policy Recommendations to Future China–Poland Relations" -- "7.4 How Would China Approach the UK?" -- "7.4.1 British Conservative Party’s Strategic Habitus: The Logics of New Right Populism" -- "7.4.1.1 The Rise of New Right Populism" -- "7.4.1.2 Object, Strategy and Pattern of the New Right Populist Party Politics" -- "7.4.2 Destined Brexit? A Structural Analysis of the 2016 and 2017 Votes" -- "7.4.3 The Geopolitical, Economic and Governance Structures of a Pre-Brexit Britain" -- "7.4.3.1 Post-2014 Geopolitical Changes in the European Rimland" -- "7.4.3.2 International Trade and Investment Structures of a Pre-Brexit Britain" -- "7.4.3.3 Governance Challenges for a Pre-Brexit Britain" -- "7.4.4 Charting the ‘One Belt One Road’ in Future UK–China Cooperation" -- "7.4.4.1 China’s Considerations of the Brexit" -- "7.4.4.2 Post-Brexit British Foreign Policy and Economic Challenges" -- "7.4.4.3 Internationalization of the Chinese Yuan in London: British and Chinese Considerations" -- "7.5 Conclusion" -- "References
"8 Conclusion: The Small Will Do What They Can!
Physical Description:1 online resource (251 pages)
ISBN:978-981-10-6563-7

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