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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... Pearl River Delta; a financial centre of global stature; extensive commercial activities; extensive manufacturing interests located in China. The city is rich. However there are post-1997 questions relating to the local political ...
... Pearl River Delta region. • Scenario 4, Slow Dissolve: Hong Kong becomes just another Pearl River Delta town and experiences long-term relative decline.49 • Scenario 5, Rational Authoritarianism Hong Kong: the Beijing authorities draw ...
... Pearl River Delta. The trajectories recall their pasts; they inform their presents; they are the starting point for the unfolding business of reading and reacting to enfolding change. The unfolding dynamics of the ongoing shift to the ...
... Pearl River Delta region of the Qing Empire, home to a few thousand farming and fishing communities; it was a major colonial trading port linking, in particular, the empires of China and Britain; it was a crucial link within East.
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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 |