Singapore
Identity, Brand, Power
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:30th Aug '18
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Explores nation building and international relations in the small multicultural nation state and cosmopolitan global city of Singapore.
Explores nation building and international relations in the small multicultural nation state and cosmopolitan global city of contemporary Singapore. Examines the exercise of smart power, or the ability to strategically combine soft and hard power resources.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.
ISBN: 9781108460460
Dimensions: 228mm x 153mm x 5mm
Weight: 140g
75 pages