Singapore in the Global System: Relationship, Structure and ChangeThis book tracks the phases of Singapore’s economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider global system, and suggests that managing these links today will be the key to the country’s future. Singapore has followed a distinctive historical development trajectory. It was one of a number of cities which provided bases for the expansion of the British empire in the East. But the Pacific War provided local elites with their chance to secure independence. In Singapore the elite disciplined and mobilized their population and built successfully on their colonial inheritance. Today, the city-state prospers in the context of its regional and global networks, and sustaining and nurturing these are the keys to its future. But there are clouds on the elite’s horizons; domestically, the population is restive with inequality, migration and surplus-repression causing concern; and internationally, the strategy of constructing a business-hub economy is being widely copied and both Hong Kong and Shanghai are significant competitors. This book discusses these issues and argues that although success is likely to characterize Singapore’s future, the elite will have to address these significant domestic and international problems. |
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... island. The ancient history is lost in myth 1 but the modern history begins ... island of Singapore; they have shaped the lives of the various denizens of ... Hong Kong became crucial colonial ports; they were links in a global system ...
... island of Hong Kong and finally reaching through Shanghai into the valley of the Yangtze river and hence the interior of China. The British Empire came to comprise both formally colonized territories and a wide arc of informal empire12 ...
... Hong Kong; plus the informal empire port cities of Bangkok15 and Shanghai.16. The. shift. to. the. modern. world. The macro ... islands and the Indo-Chinese polity of Vietnam; a Malay cultural sphere comprising a number of polities in ...
... Hong Kong was colonial withdrawal delayed. In the informal sphere, elites ... Hong. Kong. and. the. informal. periphery. Singapore, Hong Kong and the cities of the ... island was a possession of the British East India Company from 1818 to 1867 ...
... Hong Kong, the island was extracted by war from the Chinese sphere in 1842; the state asserted itself and the colony was organized through a mix of co-option and repression of the local people. The focus was the China trade; it was also ...
Contents
Impact and reply 40 | |
General crisis 58 | |
New trajectories 79 | |
Locating Singapore 100 | |
Trading cities 160 | |
Unfolding trajectories 197 | |
Notes 216 | |
Bibliography 263 | |
Index 275 | |
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Singapore in the Global System: Relationship, Structure and Change Peter Preston Limited preview - 2007 |
Singapore in the Global System: Relationship, Structure and Change Peter Wallace Preston No preview available - 2007 |