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  • A History of the People’s Action Party, 1985-2021

    by Shashi Jayakumar ...
    The People's Action Party (PAP) of Singapore is among the longest-ruling democratically-elected political parties in the world, in power continuously since Singapore gained self-rule in 1959. Such longevity is the product of an institution that is itself dynamic and responsive. But remarkably, the story of the party as institution has not received the sustained study it deserves from either ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • State, Society And National Security: Challenges And Opportunities In The 21st Century

    by Shashi Jayakumar ...
    Addressing the complexities of radicalisation, resilience, cyber, and homeland security, State, Society and National Security: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century aims to shed light on what has changed in recent years security discourse, what has worked (as well as what has not), and what the potential further evolutions within each domain might be.The release of this book ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Peter Ho's Menagerie

    by Shashi Jayakumar, Jeanette Kwek, Adrian W J Kuah ...
    Peter Ho, former head of Singapore's Civil Service, has during his decades of public service brought to bear a deep appreciation of futures thinking, complexity, and strategic surprise to multiple aspects of governance and security. This volume, presented to Peter on the occasion of his 70th birthday, brings together contributions from his friends (from Singapore and beyond) and collaborators over ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Singapore Chess: A History, 1945-1990

    by Shashi Jayakumar, Olimpiu G Urcan ...
    This book is the definitive volume on the history of chess in Singapore. Covering 1945-1990, it covers the post-war emergence of a truly 'local' chess scene out of the colonial period, then taking the story up to the modern era. Contained within these pages are tributes to the modern founding fathers of Singapore chess. Also chronicled within are the careers of Singapore's top players and their ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Drums: Distortions, Rumours, Untruths, Misinformation, And Smears

    by Norman Vasu, Benjamin Ang, Shashi Jayakumar ...
    Fake news is not new, and this issue poses an even greater challenge now. The speed of information has increased drastically with messages now spreading internationally within seconds online. With countless photographs, opinions, and hours of video published online every falsehoods proliferate rapidly. Readers are overwhelmed by the flood of information, but older markers of veracity (respected ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Perspectives on Countering Extremism

    Diversion and Disengagement

    Edited by Shashi Jayakumar ...
    The study of violent extremism has seen a great deal of academic and practitioner focus on the processes of radicalization, and strategies to counter and de-radicalize extremists. Comparatively, little has been written on the subject of Diversion – early, upstream interventions aimed at deflecting individuals from a pathway of radicalization.This volume addresses this gap in scholarship by ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Disinformation and Fake News

    Edited by Shashi Jayakumar, Benjamin Ang, Nur Diyanah Anwar ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is a collection of chapters penned by practitioners from around the world on the impact that disinformation and fake news has had in both the online and social sphere.While much has been said about individual disinformation campaigns in specific countries, this book offers a panoramic view of how these campaigns are conducted, who they target, and how they are spread. By bringing ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Terrorism, Radicalisation & Countering Violent Extremism

    Practical Considerations & Concerns

    Edited by Shashi Jayakumar ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book brings together research that covers perspectives and case studies on terrorism, radicalisation and countering violent extremism (CVE). Written by experts involved in these issues at the grassroots, the book bridges the academic-practitioner gap in the field. The proliferation of academic studies and conferences devoted to these subjects has meant that policymakers and practitioners in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    China's influence in Australia

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    In 2008 Clive Hamilton was at Parliament House in Canberra when the Beijing Olympic torch relay passed through. He watched in bewilderment as a small pro-Tibet protest was overrun by thousands of angry Chinese students. Where did they come from? Why were they so aggressive? And what gave them the right to shut down others exercising their democratic right to protest? The authorities did nothing ... Read more

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  • The Unaccountability Machine

    Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind

    by Dan Davies ...
    Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box—a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes.Passengers get bumped from flights. Phone menus disconnect. Automated financial trades produce market collapse. Of all the challenges in modern life, some of the most vexing come from our relationships with automation: a ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Hong Kong Diaries

    by Chris Patten ...
    The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handoverIn June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

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  • Limits and Beyond

    50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?

    by Ugo Bardi, Carlos Alvarez Pereira ...
    In 1972, a book changed the world.The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what did we learn, and what happens now?In The Limits to Growth, a team from MIT studied the way humans were using the resources of the earth. Using sophisticated computer modelling, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD