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Lee Hsien Loong and Singapore
This book examines the leadership and legacy of Lee Hsien Loong, who was the third Prime Minister of Singapore from 2004 to 2024.Lee's tenure was a time of profound change within Singapore and its external environment. The chapters in this book recount how he led Singapore through several crises, including the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. The world was becoming multipolar, with relations between the United States and China turning confrontational and fraught. Being a key member of ASEAN, Singapore was not immune from the impact of these external changes. It was vital to navigate these changes delicately, to secure the country's strategic interests.As a small, open ...
Lee Hsien Loong The Singapore Success Story
As the son of Singapore’s founding father, Lee modernized governance while preserving stability. This account explores his technocratic leadership, social policies, and quiet global influence.
Power Shifts in Asia
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Managing Global Risks in the Urban Age
The first full-length exposition of what it terms a global city-global risks nexus, this volume crosses disciplinary boundaries to draw upon research from Security Studies; Geography; Sociology; and Urban Studies. Innovative in its approach integrating theories about Global Cities with those positing a Global Risk Society, Yee-Kuang Heng positions this research in the midst of two concurrent global trends that will gain more significance in coming years. The world is experiencing the consequences of not only rapid globalisation, but also urbanization. In 2008, the UN declared that more than half the world’s population was now urban. At the same time, highly connected global cities like New...
The Palgrave Geopolitical Atlas
The Palgrave Geopolitical Atlas: State and Quasi-State Actors in Great Power Competition is a comprehensive, authoritative survey of the twenty-first century global politics. Going beyond the traditional state-centrism in the international relations discipline, this book re-orients both states and quasi-states as critical geopolitical actors. This book challenges the state-centrism in orthodox international relations scholarship. Advancing a post-sovereign lens, this book re-imagines a global geopolitical map that features different types of states and quasi-states. By doing so, this book transcends the mainstream “great power-small state” framework in geopolitical studies and advances a novel agenda for investigating the interaction of states and quasi-states in global politics. It guides readers to interpret the twenty-first century global geopolitical map through a post-sovereign lens. This book will be an essential reference for international relations scholars and students around the world. It will also appeal to global policy makers and practitioners who are observing the dynamics of contemporary great power competition.
Securitising Singapore
Aljunied examines how the Singaporean government developed a comprehensive state–society strategic relationship by ‘securitising’ vital policy areas because of Singapore’s vulnerability as a global city state. In the twenty-first century, the Singaporean government has strategically renewed an existing form of authoritarian rule by ‘militarising’ national security governance. The main objective is to widen and deepen state power. Senior military-trained civilian political leaders and bureaucrats use military personnel, command and control, terminology and strategy of war to deal with non-traditional security challenges leading to the state’s further domination over civil libert...
China-US Competition
This open access edited book brings together a closer examination of European and Asian responses to the escalating rivalry between the US and China. As the new Cold War has surfaced as a perceivable reality in the post-COVID era, the topic itself is of great importance to policymakers, academic researchers, and the interested public. Furthermore, this manuscript makes a valuable contribution to an under-studied and increasingly important phenomenon in international relations: the impact of the growing strategic competition between the United States and China on third parties, such as small and middle powers in the two arguably most affected regions of the world: Europe and East Asia. The European side has been under-studied and explicitly comparative work on Europe and East Asia is extremely rare. Given that the manuscript focuses heavily on recent developments—and because many of these developments have been quite dramatic—there are very few publications that cover the same topics.
