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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... Civil Society in Myanmar Education, health and environment Helen James 4 Regionalism in Post-Suharto Indonesia Edited by Maribeth Erb, Priyambudi Sulistiyanto and Carole Faucher 5 Living with Transition in Laos Market integration in ...
... civil before establishing the People's Republic; and so neither Bangkok nor Shanghai had any place for the erstwhile colonial power of Britain. war. Shaping. national. trajectories: Singapore,. Hong. Kong. and. the. informal. periphery.
... civil servants in London and the island were key power-holders; powerful expatriate business was joined by local Chinese business. In the late nineteenth century the west coast of Malaya was drawn into the colonial sphere and Singapore ...
... civil war and it fell out of the global capitalist trading system. In Maoist China it figured as a base for the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Development resumed after Deng Xiaoping's accession to power and it is now a key ...
... of empire; the period drew these occupied territories into the modern world; European civil war coupled to the dynamics of the general crisis in East Asia offered local national elites their chance; they took it, establishing thereby a.
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 |