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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... prospered other traders came , in particular from France and America . These two countries both established settlements , and whilst the French Concession remained separate , in time the British settle- ment embraced American interests ...
... prospered until the crisis 1932-45 . Thailand emerged as an American protégé . The informal empire grew in southern and central China ; Hong Kong was joined by the port of Shanghai ; the International Settlement functioned as a colony ...
... prospered until overwhelmed by war in 1941. Second , the British acquired Hong Kong in 1842 ; it was extracted by war from China ; an indigenous population was mostly ignored ; the territory prospered as a colonial sea port ; inward ...
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Singapore in the Global System: Relationship, Structure and Change Peter Wallace Preston No preview available - 2007 |