1st Edition

Singapore in the Global System Relationship, Structure and Change

By Peter Preston Copyright 2008
288 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This 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... Read more

1. Singapore Contexts  2. Complex Change  3. Impact and Reply  4. General Crisis  5. New Trajectories  6. Locating Singapore  7. Trading Cities  8. Unfolding Trajectories 

Biography

Peter Preston is a member of the Department of Government and Public Administration of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests revolve around the issue of complex change which he has pursued in the contexts of Third World development theory, questions of English identity and the political economy of change in East Asia. His recent publications include: Understanding Modern Japan: A Political Economy of Development, Culture and Global Power (2000); Political Change in East Asia (2003); and Relocating England: Englishness in the New Europe (2004).

'This book by Peter Preston offers an ambitious and unconventional framework for understanding the path of Singapore's socio and politico-economic trajectories' - Ho Khai Leong, Contemporary Southeast Asia, December 2008