Singapore : identity, brand, power
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Singapore : identity, brand, power
(Cambridge elements, . Elements in politics and society in Southeast Asia / edited by Edward Aspinall,
Cambridge University Press, 2018
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Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Library (GRIPS Library)
: pbk319.239||Ta8301471242
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [64]-74)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Contemporary Singapore is simultaneously a small postcolonial multicultural nation state and a cosmopolitan global city. To manage fundamental contradictions, the state takes the lead in authoring the national narrative. This is partly an internal process of nation building, but it is also achieved through more commercially motivated and outward facing efforts at nation and city branding. Both sets of processes contribute to Singapore's capacity to influence foreign affairs, if only for national self-preservation. For a small state with resource limitations, this is mainly through the exercise of smart power, or the ability to strategically combine soft and hard power resources.
Table of Contents
- 1. Singapore's political development through cultural and ideological lenses
- 2. Ideological sources of Singapore's hegemonic state
- 3. A multiracial, multi-lingual, and multi-religious nation-state
- 4. A cosmopolitan global city
- 5. Civil society and public engagement
- 6. Nation and city branding
- 7. The soft power of a small state
- 8. The future of the hegemonic state.
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