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World Scientific Series on Singapores 50 Years of Nation-Building

Published

50 Years of Social Issues in Singapore

edited by David Chan (Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Our Lives to Live: Putting a Womans Face to Change in Singapore

edited by Kanwaljit Soin and Margaret Thomas

50 Years of SingaporeEurope Relations: Celebrating Singapores Connections with Europe

edited by Yeo Lay Hwee (EU Centre, Singapore) and Barnard Turner (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Perspectives on the Security of Singapore: The First 50 Years

edited by Barry Desker and Ang Cheng Guan (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

50 Years of Singapore and the United Nations

edited by Tommy Koh (Ambassador-at-Large, Singapore), Chang Li Lin (Prime Ministers Office, Singapore) and Joanna Koh (Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore)

Forthcoming

Food, Foodways and Foodscapes: Culture, Community and Consumption in Post-Colonial Singapore

edited by Lily Kong and Vineeta Sinha (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Singapores Health Care System: What 50 Years Have Achieved

edited by Lee Chien Earn (Changi General Hospital, Singapore) and K. Satku (National University Health System, Singapore)

50 Years of Chinese Community in Singapore

edited by Pang Cheng Lian (Former Singapores Ambassador to Switzerland and Italy)

50 Years of Engineering in Singapore

edited by Cham Tao Soon (Emeritus President, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

50 Years of Environment: Singapores Journey Towards Environmental Sustainability

edited by Tan Yong Soon (Former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Singapore & Former Permanent Secretary in the National Climate Change Secretariat in the Prime Ministers Office, Singapore)

50 Years of Eurasian Community

edited by Timothy James De Souza (The Eurasian Association, Singapore)

50 Years of Indian Community

edited by Gopinath Pillai (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore)

50 Years of Malay-Muslim Community

edited by Zainul Abidin Rasheed (Former President, Singapore Islamic Religious Council, Singapore)

50 Years of Materials Science

edited by Freddy Boey (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Subramanian Lakshmi Venkatraman (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and B.V.R. Chowdari (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

50 Years of Real Estate in Singapore

edited by Deng Yongheng, Seek Ngee Huat, Sing Tien Foo and Yu Shi-Ming (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

The Singapore Research Story

edited by Hang Chang Chieh (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Low Teck Seng (National Research Foundation, Singapore) and Raj Thampuran (A*Star, Singapore)

50 Years of Science

edited by Lim Hock (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Bernard Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and K.K. Phua (World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, and Imperial College Press, London)

SingaporeChina Relations: 50 Years

edited by Zheng Yongnian and Lye Liang Fook (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Singapores Economic Development: Retrospection and Reflections

edited by Linda Y C Lim (University of Michigan, USA)

50 Years of Technical Education in Singapore: How to Build a World Class Education System from Scratch

by N. Varaprasad (Partner and Principal Consultant, Singapore Education Consulting Group, and founding Principal and CEO, Temasek Polytechnic)

50 Years of Transportation in Singapore: Achievements and Challenges

edited by Fwa Tien Fang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore

edited by Heng Chye Kiang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Perspectives on the security of Singapore : the first 50 years / [edited by] Barry Desker (S. Rajaratnam School
of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University), Ang Cheng Guan (S. Rajaratnam School of
International Studies, Nanyang Technological University).

pages cm -- (World Scientific Series on Singapore's 50 Years of Nation-Building)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-9814689328 (hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-9814689335 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. National security--Singapore. I. Desker, Barry, editor. II. Ang, Cheng Guan, editor. III. Ang, Cheng Guan.
Singapores conception of security Container of (work).

HV6433.S55P47 2015

355'.03305957--dc23

2015023688

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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Contents

Ang Cheng Guan

Norman Vasu and Bernard Loo

Alan Chong

Tan See Seng

Kwa Chong Guan

S. R. Joey Long

Bilveer Singh

Theophilus Kwek and Joseph Chinyong Liow

Katie Tan and Ong Weichong

Ralf Emmers

Mely Caballero-Anthony

Khong Yuen Foong

Rohan Gunaratna

Mohammad Alami Musa and Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib

S. R. Nathan

Peter Ho

Bilahari Kausikan

Philip Yeo

Barry Desker

About the Contributors

Alan Chong is an Associate Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He has published widely on the notion of soft power and the role of ideas in constructing the international relations of Singapore and Asia. His publications have appeared in International Relations of the Asia-Pacific; The Pacific Review; The Review of International Studies; Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; Armed Forces and Society; Journal of Strategic Studies; and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. He is also the author of Foreign Policy in Global Information Space: Actualizing Soft Power (UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). His interest in soft power has also led to inquiry into the sociological and philosophical foundations of international communication. In the latter area, he is currently working on a manuscript titled

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