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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Results 1-5 of 92
... and reply 40 4 General crisis 58 5 New trajectories 79 6 Locating Singapore 100 7 Trading cities 160 8 Unfolding trajectories 197 Notes 216 Bibliography 263 Index 275 Photographs 145 146 147 148 149 168 169 1 Singapore,
... crisis; decolonization; coldwar; and more recently deepening economic, social and political progress within the confines of the region of East Asia. 5 Their modern history reveals an interlinked set of discrete historical trajectories ...
... crisis unfolded at different times within the territories of the region but the descent into chaos in China was the first symptom; thereafter Imperial Japanese aggression ensured the crisis had regional scope; the collapse of the ...
... crisis;. the. opening. for. national. development. The British Empire in East Asia was assembled over some 300 or so years. In the years following the Great War there was some talk of reform but little was accomplished. The consensus ...
... crisis only to fall into a political crisis in 2006. Nonetheless Thailand is a key country within Southeast Asia. Shanghai developed through the nineteenth century around the International Settlement. The city was caught up in the ...
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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