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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.