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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... expansion in the Asian region . The eastern expansion of British trade interests began in the seventeenth century , deepened in the eighteenth19 and reached its furthest extent in the nineteenth . The Company infiltrated the patchwork ...
... expansion drew in territories throughout Southeast Asia and the Americans replaced the Spanish in the Philippines . China was the goal of later expansion ; later still Japan and Northeast Asia were drawn into the industrial capitalist ...
... expansion towards the east continued in the nineteenth century ; Singapore was occupied in 1818 ; Hong Kong in 1841 ; Shanghai was drawn into the system in 1842 ; Bangkok in 1855 ; and the high- watermark of British expansion revolved ...
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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 Preston Limited preview - 2007 |
Singapore in the Global System: Relationship, Structure and Change Peter Wallace Preston No preview available - 2007 |