Between Rising Powers: China, Singapore and India

Geography has moulded Singapore’s self-definition, much as it has shaped the contours of the rest of Southeast Asia, a region that lies south of China and east of India. Placed within overlapping Sinic and Indic zones, Singapore's entrepôt role has served both. Today, as China and India emerge...

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Main Author: Iqbal Latif, Asad-ul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore ISEAS Publishing [2007]
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Online Access:DE-859
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Summary:Geography has moulded Singapore’s self-definition, much as it has shaped the contours of the rest of Southeast Asia, a region that lies south of China and east of India. Placed within overlapping Sinic and Indic zones, Singapore's entrepôt role has served both. Today, as China and India emerge simultaneously as rising powers, a port city is going beyond its trading role to engage them in political and security terms. This book combines diplomatic history and international relations theory to show how Singapore is facilitating China's and India's engagement of Southeast Asia
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Jun 2018)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9789812305718
DOI:10.1355/9789812305718