Destined Statecraft

1. Introduction: Remaking the Small Powers’ Destines
Pak Nung Wong

2. The Small Powers in World Politics: Outline of a Theory of African-Asian Critical Realism
Pak Nung Wong

3. USA–China Containment and Counter-Containment in Southeast Asia: The ‘Battle’ for Myanmar (Burma)
Pak Nung Wong

4. Strategic Cultures as ‘the Powers’: Kautilya’s Hindu Statecraft and the ‘String of Pearls’ in the Indian Ocean
Pak Nung Wong

5. Chaperoning Thai Populist Democracy: Habitus, Structure and Technique of King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s Statecraft (1946–2016)
Pak Nung Wong

6. Practicing People’s Diplomacy Over Disputed Waters: Peaceable Intervention Across the South China Sea
Pak Nung Wong

7. How Would China Approach the European Rimland? The Pivots of Poland and the UK
Pak Nung Wong

8. Conclusion: The Small Will Do What They Can!
Pak Nung Wong

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Comparative Politics