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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... 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 ...
... a number of histories are available; as the power of particular players has changed, rising or falling, so too has one history been favoured over another. The elite of the contemporary city-state tell a quite particular tale; they present ...
... the elite must manage as they plot a route to the future. The current polity is not separate from the modern world; it is firmly and deeply lodged within that world. The present pattern is the contingent outcome of dynamics of change ...
... the elite endeavours to replicate the recipe of earlier success. • Scenario 2, Globalization (American Sphere): the PAP partystate elite endeavours to replicate earlier success, with a particular focus on East Asian newly industrialized ...
... the elite, the Japanese had become a powerful industrial society. Finally, intra-regional and extra-regional relationships will shift as individual trajectories advance unevenly; the historical development experience of a particular ...
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 |