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ISBN 10: 0415484103

ISBN 13: 9780415484107

Author: Lily Zubaidah Rahim

Relations between Singapore and her immediate Malay neighbours have been perennially fraught with tension and misunderstanding. In making sense of this complex relationship, Lily Rahim explores the salience of historical animosities and competitive economic pressures, and Singapore’s janus-faced security and foreign economic policy orientation and ‘regional outsider’ complex. Focusing on Singapore’s relations with Malaysia, the book also examines the Indonesian dimension in bilateral relations. It highlights the paradoxical similarities in the nation-building approaches of Singapore and Malaysia. The author reflects critically on sensitive issues such as the rhetoric and reality of meritocracy and multiracialism in Singapore, and analyses the city-state’s weak regional soft power credentials and reputation as a political laggard despite its economic achievements. Incorporating perspectives and frameworks from the disciplines of comparative politics, area studies, international relations, political economy and history, this multidisciplinary study offers groundbreaking insights into the way in which the neighboring states of Singapore and Malaysia see themselves, each other, the region and beyond. This book will be of particular interest to keen observers of Southeast Asian politics.

Singapore in the Malay World Building and Breaching Regional Bridges 1st Table of contents:

1 Singapura
Introduction
Understanding Singapore–Malaysia relations
Paradigms of authoritarian nation-building
Economic competition and complementarity
The regional other: hedging with hegemons
Indonesian counter-balance
The business of diplomacy
The authority of Minister Mentor Lee

2 Remembering and forgetting
Narratives and myths
Curious celebration of colonialism
Colonial historiography and the myth of Raffles
Raffles: conspiring for control of Singapura
Forays into the ‘unknowable past’: Singapore’s pre-1819 Malay history
Clash of communalisms: merger, separation and beyond
Saving Premier Lee and the PAP
Clash of communalisms and the road to separation
Rallying foreign support
Cultural separation from the Nusantara
Diffident and defiant Malays
Sinification and the status of the national language
Conclusion

3 Competing and comparable paradigms of authoritarian nation-building
The politics of balas dendam
Communalism and the politics of one-upmanship
Ethno-nationalism and the roots of Malay angst
Modern Singapore: a relic of Western imperialism in the Nusantara?
Communal social engineering: constructing the Melayu and China Baru
Maintaining Chinese dominance
Geopolitics of communal scapegoating: invoking the fear of re-merger
Technocratic governance
A meritocratic society?
UMNO and the PAP: divergent internal dynamics
Cooperative impulses of authoritarian states
Kinks in the governance armour
Conclusion

4 The frightened country and the geopolitics of insecurity
Insecurity and national identity
Insecurity and the realist worldview of an authoritarian state
Realist technocracy
Realist notions of sovereignty
Singapore and the regional security dilemma
Suspicious neighbours: the Singapore–Malaysia security counter-balance
The racialised security apparatus
Siege mentality states in collusion
Realist realignments: from Whitehall to Washington
All the way with the USA
Uncritical support for the Iraq War
Supporting the fictitious case for invasion
Short-term benefits and long-term costs
Soft power deficit and vulnerability in the war on terror
Conclusion

5 The politics of economic competition and cooperation
Kiasu and ‘catch-up’ mindsets
Southeast Asia’s hybrid developmental states
Economic challenge and response: 1990s
1997 regional economic crisis: tensions unravel
Competing for information, communications and technology hub status
Vying for regional transhipment and air-hub status
Betting on biotechnology
Education and the knowledge economy
Striving for regional education hub status
Tourism, arts and entertainment hubs
Film and digital media hub
Impediments to closer economic cooperation: stalled water negotiations
Water agreements: relic of colonialism?
In defence of water
Zig-zagging towards closer cooperation?
Iskandar development region: deepening economic integration?
Conclusion

6 The singa and garuda
Of amity and enmity
Singapura: in and of the Nusantara
Rocky relations: the Sukarno years
Reordering bilateral relations: the New Order years
Invasion of East Timor: janus-faced diplomacy
Triangular crosscurrents
Lee Kuan Yew and Suharto: chemistry between autocrats
Difficult dealings with fledgling democrats: the post-New Order era
Bilateral undercurrents
Haven for economic criminals
Kiasu eye to smuggling
Rapacious appropriation of Riau’s resources
Riau: Singapore’s economic hinterland
Kiasu business practices
Denial of basic rights for maids
Towards soft power diplomacy? The SBY administration
Kiasu diplomacy and the perpetuation of structural tensions
Conclusion

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