Politics

Description Praise About the Author Shortlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2016 (English Non-Fiction) 3rd Prize Winner of Popular Readers' ...

Description Praise About the Author Shorlisted for the 2020 Singapore Book Awards (Best Non-Fiction) Look inside the book        Get the Chiam ...

Description Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role ...

Description About the Author In Liberalism Disavowed, Chua Beng Huat examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore and the wa...

Description About the Editor The social context of Singapore is changing rapidly, and understanding how people think, feel and behave in variou...

Description The People's Action Party (PAP) of Singapore is among the longest-ruling democratically-elected political parties in the world, in ...

Description About the Author This book examines the staying power of the People's Action Party, a political party that has governed Singapore s...

Description The fields of special needs education and disability in Singapore have witnessed significant changes and developments especially du...

Description About the Author One of the pivotal figures in the modern history of Southeast Asia, Mr Lee Kuan Yew passed away on 23 March 2015. ...

Description About the Editor From independence in 1965, Singapore has experienced a meteoric rise to a modern developed city-state. What is les...

Description The Art and Science of Entrepreneurship benefits from the author's many years of experience as a serial entrepreneur. By mapping hi...

Description Mahadeva, the founding secretary-general of the Singapore National Union of Journalists (SNUJ), suddenly found himself in the news ...

Description The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is Singapore's central bank and integrated financial regulator. As a central bank, MAS pr...

Description About the Author The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Sing...

Description Praise About the Editors Advocates and activists in Singapore contribute to policy discussions and positive change through a combin...

Description About the Editor Since 1965, Singapore has been propelled to the dizzying heights of first-world prosperity. Yet, the People's Acti...

Description About the Author The Roots of Resilience examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authorit...

Description About the Author For several decades, the city-state of Singapore has been an international anomaly, combining an advanced, open ec...

Description About the Author This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the foun...

Description About the Author In 2015, Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence. This book covers the complex historical forces...

Description Praise About the Author Revisionist" or "alternative" historians have increasingly questioned elements of the Singapore Story - the...

Description About the Author “Unfortunately, some important people... such as Tay Seow Huah, had died before interviewers could get to them.” L...

Description About the Editors Malaysia's stunning 2018 election brought down a ruling party that had held power since independence in 1957, mar...

Description About the Author A lecturer turned banker, Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam never expected to become a politician, much less a president. Chall...

Description Praise About the Author Even small states can have grand strategies. Singapore, despite its poor natural resource endowment, small ...

Description Lee Kuan Yew passed away on 23 March 2015 at the age of 92. This book, which was first published in 1998, tells the story of his li...

Description About the Author In this fully updated, third edition of Crossroads, Jim Baker adds new information following recent government ele...

Description About the Authors The People's Action Party's unbroken mandate to rule in Singapore rests in no small part on how it has explained ...

Description Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore’s economic growth, Dr Goh’s collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light...

Description About the Author The history of communism in Malaya (including Singapore) almost coincided with the rise and fall of communism worl...

Description About the Editor In this collection, public intellectuals and civil society activists discuss Singapore's public rhetoric about lib...

Description About the Editor As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a time for introspection to look back at the successes an...

Description About the Editors This book presents the first oral history of Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) (2004–2014). As...

Description About the Author An insider’s biography of Anwar Ibrahim’s remarkable political odyssey. The four years following Anwar Ibrahim’s r...

Praise About the Editors “Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but t...

Description About the Author The third of the “Tom Plate on Asia” series, Yo-Yo Diplomacy compiles the compelling and insightful columns on Asi...

Description About the Author This book describes the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce's changing relationship with the state and with busi...

Description Praise About the Author Forty years after the Bangkok Declaration, which established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (AS...

Description Praise About the Author Australia’s policy towards Britain’s end of empire in Southeast Asia influenced the course of this decoloni...

Description About the Author Over the six-month period from late 2012 to early 2013, Hu Jintao, the President of the People’s Republic of China...

Description Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Book of the Year Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected businessmen in Asia. But thi...

Description About the Editor The social context of Singapore is changing rapidly, and understanding how people think, feel and behave in variou...

Description About the Author Though there are several books on the Singapore economy, none have focused on the time series-based investigations...

Description The conventional understanding of Singapore’s foreign policy can be summarized in three main propositions: first, it is dictated by...

Description About the Author Through the lens of the now-defunct Singapore government-linked company (GLC) called International Trading Company...

Description About the Author My Journey in Politics: Practical Lessons in Leadership shares the author's journey in Singapore politics from 199...