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  • The Ruling Elite of Singapore

    Leadership beyond Lee

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

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  • The Ruling Elite of Singapore

    Networks of Power and Influence

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $183.99 CAD

  • Singapore

    A Modern History

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $29.49 CAD

  • Makers of Modern Asia

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

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

    Modifié par Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Michael D. Barr ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $153.99 CAD

  • Cultural Politics and Asian Values

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

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    par Ramachandra Guha ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Last Mughal

    The Fall of Delhi, 1857

    par William Dalrymple ...
    WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard'A compulsively readable masterpiece' Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of BooksA stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century Indi... ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar

    par Helen James ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Fractured China

    How State Transformation Is Shaping China's Rise

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Understanding Singapore Politics (Second Edition)

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Understanding Singapore Politics

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD