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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... continued down the years. The period before the arrival of the Europeans saw the rise and fall of a succession of polities; thereafter the territories of the region were reordered in line with the demands of the expanding global ...
... continued by King Chulalongkorn, 33 and whilst the Siamese had to cede territory in the south to the British and in the east to the French, the 1896 Anglo-French agreement guarantied the country's autonomy, freeing the leadership to ...
... continued; the Cultural Revolution is one countrywide conflict. Matters only stabilize in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping begins market-oriented reforms and a coherent strategy of national development begins to take shape. The Japanese elite ...
... continued until the French lost a strategic battle and a UN-brokered settlement allowed the French to withdraw. The British returned to their colonial holdings in Malaya and began negotiations about decolonization, but their wartime ...
... continued. There was some evidence of domestic hollowing out and some structural unemployment, but aid, trade and foreign direct investment patterns established a production network throughout East Asia. The domestic bubble burst in ...
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 |