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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... 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 ...
... War there was some talk of reform but little was accomplished. The consensus amongst celebrants and critics seems to ... Pacific War offered little real chance for the re-establishment of colonial territories, and against varying levels ...
... Pacific War plus the rapidly established cold war moved the Thai elite into the American sphere. A further period of bureaucratic/military rule only ended in 1992. Announcements of the status of the fifth Asian Tiger proved premature ...
... Pacific War nationalist groups secured independence; thereafter state regimes mobilized their populations in pursuit of national development strategies. Multiple intraregional and extraregional successes followed. Elite groups are ...
... Pacific War has undergone a 6 period of rapid relative advance within the global system; particular countries have advanced quickly; the core is Japan, there are a series of vibrant peripheral territories in the Tiger economies and ...
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 |