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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Relationship, Structure and Change Peter Preston. Singapore in the Global System This book tracks the phases of Singapore's economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with ...
Relationship, Structure and Change Peter Preston. ports; they were links in a global system; they facilitated access to their local hinterlands within the Malay world of Southeast Asia and southern China; later the ports of the informal ...
... and American governments and traders, and a series of empires and spheres of influence were established. In the late nineteenth century the Japanese also established an empire in Northeast Asia.22 The system expanded until the early years ...
... with risk, suffused with violence and driven by the intermingled demands of trade, imperial competition and individual opportunism. The British fought around fifty wars in the period ... the region as a series of discrete colonial spheres.
Relationship, Structure and Change Peter Preston. ethnic division in economic and political life was reflected in spatial divisions in settlement. In 1867–1941 the territory became a formal colony: a governor was appointed; civil servants ...
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 |