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  • The Ruling Elite of Singapore

    Leadership beyond Lee

    by Michael D. Barr ...
    Michael Barr explores both the political and the institutional logic behind the networks of power at work in one of Asia's most prosperous countries, the city-state of Singapore. Barr charts the creation of a national elite in the 1960s, its consolidation as a multi-generational ruling elite in the 1980s, and the twists and turns of its trajectory thereafter. He argues that the contemporary ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Ruling Elite of Singapore

    Networks of Power and Influence

    by Michael D. Barr ...
    Michael Barr explores the complex and covert networks of power at work in one of the world's most prosperous countries - the city-state of Singapore. He argues that the contemporary networks of power are a deliberate project initiated and managed by Lee Kuan Yew - former prime minister and Singapore's 'founding father' - designed to empower himself and his family. Barr identifies the crucial ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • Singapore

    A Modern History

    by Michael D. Barr ...
    Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is today. In this thematic study of the island nation, Michael D. Barr proposes a new approach to understand this development. From the pre-colonial ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Makers of Modern Asia

    by Ramachandra Guha, Jay Taylor, Rana Mitter, Odd Arne Westad, Srinath Raghavan, Farzana Shaikh, James Rush, Michael D. Barr, Jian Chen, Sophie Quinn-Judge0 ...
    Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and India’s increasing importance in world affairs. Yet discussions of Asia seem fixated on economic indicators—gross national product, per capita income, share of global trade. Makers of Modern Asia reorients our understanding of contemporary Asia by highlighting the political ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Limits of Authoritarian Governance in Singapore's Developmental State

    Edited by Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Michael D. Barr ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book delves into the limitations of Singapore’s authoritarian governance model. In doing so, the relevance of the Singapore governance model for other industrialising economies is systematically examined. Research in this book examines the challenges for an integrated governance model that has proven durable over four to five decades. The editors argue that established socio-political and ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Cultural Politics and Asian Values

    by Michael D. Barr ...
    Cultural Politics and Asian Values looks at the political, cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of 'the West', with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics: democratization, the international human rights discourse, NGOs and globalization.The book surveys the political history and pre-history of the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    I call myself a Nehruvian Indian [and] I like to think that the term "Nehruvian Indian" captures more than my own c.v.', says Ramachandra Guha in his Introduction to this sparkling collection of essays. His book is a meditation on how a large area of contemporary India's cultural and intellectual life has in fact been fashioned by exceptional individuals who have, in diverse ways, imbibed the ... Read more

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  • Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar

    by Helen James ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Helen James considers security in Myanmar/Burma. She uses the ideas put forward in the United Nations Development Programme's 1994 report, of human, as opposed to state and security, going on to argue that freedom from want, and freedom from fear (of the regime) are in fact mutually supportive ideas, and that the security of the people and the security of the state are in fact in a symbiotic ... Read more

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  • Fractured China

    How State Transformation Is Shaping China's Rise

    by Lee Jones, Shahar Hameiri ...
    Is China's rise a threat to international order? Fractured China shows that it depends on what one means by 'China', for China is not the monolithic, unitary actor that many assume. Forty years of state transformation – the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of party-state apparatuses – have profoundly changed how its foreign policy is made and implemented. Today, Chinese ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Understanding Singapore Politics (Second Edition)

    by Bilveer Singh ...
    Understanding Singapore Politics, Second Edition, aims to present a structural-functional understanding of politics in Singapore. This textbook provides a foundational knowledge of Singapore's politics by discussing key topics including the country's history, political and party systems, role of parastatal organisations, nation building, political leadership, electoral politics, hot-button ... Read more

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  • Governing Global-City Singapore

    Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew

    by Kenneth Paul Tan ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    This book provides a detailed analysis of how governance in Singapore has evolved since independence to become what it is today, and what its prospects might be in a post-Lee Kuan Yew future. Firstly, it discusses the question of political leadership, electoral dominance and legislative monopoly in Singapore’s one-party dominant system and the system’s durability. Secondly, it tracks developments ... Read more

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  • Understanding Singapore Politics

    by Bilveer Singh ...
    Understanding Singapore Politics is written to address the dearth of a succinct overview on Singapore politics. This introductory text looks at the factors that shape the island-republic's domestic politics, the key institutions and issues in the city-state, electoral power as well as the political direction Singapore is likely to take in a post-Lee Kuan Yew era. The specific institutions covered ... Read more

    $32.99 USD