Singapore's Foreign Policy: Coping with Vulnerability by Michael Leifer (English

Description: Singapore's Foreign Policy by Michael Leifer Singapores Foreign Policy is the first full-length English-language study of this subject and is an essential resource for all those interested in Singapores international role. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book examines the deep influence in Singapores foreign policy of the governments perception of the island-states domestic and international vulnerabilitity. In the years following its traumatic separation from Malaysia, Singapore has risen to become one of the leading economic powers in Southeast Asia. This economic strength has carried it through the recent East Asian economic crisis, as well as providing the resources for an excellent defence capability. Singapores diplomatic achievements include relationships with countries across Asia and Europe, and ensure its international status, Yet, despite this success, Singapores foreign policy has continued to be influenced by a deep seated sence of its own vulnerability. Politicians from the first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, onwards have focused on Singapores limited physical size, potential domestic and international frailty due to racial tension and confirmed geographical location. These factors have combined to create a powerful nation-state which has never allowed itself to take its sovereign status for granted.Singapores Foreign Policy is the first full-length English-language study of this subject and is an essential resource for all those interested in Singapores international role. Back Cover In the years following its traumatic separation from Malaysia, Singapore has risen to become one of the leading economic powers in Southeast Asia. This economic strength has carried it through the recent East Asian economic crisis, as well as providing the resources for an excellent defence capability. Singapores diplomatic achievements include relationships with countries across Asia and Europe, and ensure its interantional status, Yet, despite this success, Singapores foreign policy has continued to be influenced by a deep seated sence of its own vulnerability. Politicians from the first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, onwards have focused on Singapores limited physical size, potential domestic and international frailty due to racial tension and confirmed geographical location. These factors have combined to create a powerful nation-state which has never allowed itself to take its sovereign status for granted. Singapores Foreign Policy is the first full-length English-language study of this subject and is an essential resource for all those interested in Singapores international role. Author Biography Michael Leifer Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. Chapter One Singapore: The Foreign Policy of an Exceptional State 2. Chapter Two The Battle for Sovereignty 3. Chapter Three Accommodating and Transcending Regional Locale 4. Chapter Four Singapore and the Powers 5. Chapter Five Driving and Suffering the Region? Conclusion: Coping with Vulnerability Review "The major strengths of this book are Leifers uncanny ability to decipher with great accuracy the motivations of Singapores foreign policy formulators and deliver them to an audience in his trademark elegance.."-"Pacific Affairs: Winter 2001-2002 "This book...is a useful contribution to a better understanding of how this small nation has managed to survive in such a politcally fragile region. It will be especially beneficial for readers who are keen to have a detailed account of Singapores problematic relations with Malaysia and Indonesia."-"International Relations of the Asia-Pacific Review Text What light is shed upon old topics when new sources are examined! In this major work on Afro-Mexican and, really, general Spanish American history, Bennett (CUNY) prowls through the neglected Mexican archival records dealing with marriages (matrimonios) and religious peccadilloes (bienes nacionales, inquisicion). Essentially ignoring the traditional topics of enslavement, labor laws, work discipline, and resistance, Bennett uncovers a vibrant black community developing its own customs and practices. The author focuses on the years 1622-1788, in the process covering the often-overlooked 17th century, in which New Spain had the largest collection of individuals of African descent in the New World. Bennett reveals a black society in which creolization took place rapidly, Christianization happened so fast that Afro-Mexicans accepted and manipulated with aplomb church regulations on marriage and family, and a community existed that could mobilize a legion of grandparents, parents, siblings, cousins, neighbors, and godparents as witnesses for routine legal questions. In place of a weak, shattered individualistic society dealing with the so-called "social death" caused by slavery, Bennetts Afro-Mexicans were a community that soon counted a majority of freedmen living in an urban setting. What a contrast with the Afro-Cuban slave society evolving to the east in the Gulf of Mexico! Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries. -- ChoiceJ. A. Lewis, Western Carolina University, January 2010 Details ISBN0415233534 Author Michael Leifer Short Title SINGAPORES FOREIGN POLICY Pages 192 Language English ISBN-10 0415233534 ISBN-13 9780415233538 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2000 Imprint Routledge Subtitle Coping with Vulnerability Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st Illustrations black & white illustrations DOI 10.1604/9780415233538 UK Release Date 2000-06-01 AU Release Date 2000-06-01 NZ Release Date 2000-06-01 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Politics in Asia Publication Date 2000-06-01 Alternative 9780415233521 DEWEY 327.5957 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134414018;

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