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Goh Keng Swee

A Public Career Remembered

By: Barry Desker,Chong Guan Kwa

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Goh Keng Swee

A Public Career Remembered

By: Barry Desker,Chong Guan Kwa

A crucial founding father of independent Singapore, Dr Goh Keng Swee has his distinguished and unparalleled stint in public service hitherto reduced to dates and designations. The book is the first to collect and present a broad range of historical material commemorating Dr Goh's public career. This book is not a biography of Dr Goh's life. Instead, it commemorates his public career and attempts to portray a more personal and candid perspective of the principal architect of independent Singapore. This is done by pulling together a variety of historical sources, ranging from Dr Goh's public statements and speeches, and existing and fresh oral interviews with his former colleagues to archival documents and imagery. This book is an important contribution not only to Singapore's history in general, providing valuable historical context to the challenges of ensuring the sustainability and survival of a young nation at the highest levels of policy-making, but also a tribute to Dr Goh — how he is remembered, respected and revered by some of his closest peers and colleagues.

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World Scientific

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9814291382

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9789814291385

Against All Odds

Singapore’s Successful Lobbying on the Cambodia Issue at the United Nations

By: Barry Desker

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Against All Odds

Singapore’s Successful Lobbying on the Cambodia Issue at the United Nations

By: Barry Desker

Vietnam's invasion and occupation of Cambodia on 25 December 1978 shattered the peace in Southeast Asia. The geo-political fabric of the region could have changed forever if nothing was done to oppose the invasion. Leading the charge was tiny Singapore, with her diplomats spearheading the thrust. Singapore could not do it alone, but had to have the support of like-minded nations from the region and beyond. Many sceptics, both within and outside Singapore, were convinced that Singapore's efforts would fail, as a tiny state could not possibly exert on the regional and global stage the kind of influence needed for the task. The Cambodia issue changed all that. Singapore and her diplomats, by their conviction and doggedness, took the lead in galvanizing international and regional support to thwart the occupation of Cambodia as a fait accompli by Vietnam. This paper tells the inside story of how Singapore's diplomats lobbied for ASEAN's interests in various international fora at a critical time in the region's history. The lessons learnt are still relevant today.

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ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

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9814762504

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9789814762502

State of Recovery

The Quest to Restore American Security After 9/11

By: Barry Scott Zellen

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State of Recovery

The Quest to Restore American Security After 9/11

By: Barry Scott Zellen

In the decade that followed 9/11, technologies and technology policies became central to homeland security. For example, the U.S. erected new border defenses with remote sensors and biometric scanners, and deployed new autonomous air warfare capabilities, such as the drone program. Looking at efforts to restore security after 9/11, the work examines issues such as the rise in technology spending, the various scenarios of mass terror, and America's effort to ensure that future engagements will take place far from the homeland. Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iran's emergence as nuclear threat, and North Korea's acceleration of its missile program are analyzed along with the "axis of evil" and America's effort to create a ballistic missile shield to thwart this emerging threat to its security. By focusing on the technologies of homeland security rather than on cyber warfare itself, the work offers a unique and needed survey that will appeal to anyone involved with the study and development of homeland and strategic security.

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272

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441177884

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Against All Odds

Singapore’s Successful Lobbying on the Cambodia Issue at the United Nations

By: Barry Desker

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Singapore’s Successful Lobbying on the Cambodia Issue at the United Nations

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ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

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Goh Keng Swee

A Public Career Remembered

By: Barry Desker,Chong Guan Kwa

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A Public Career Remembered

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World Scientific

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Barry Crocker

Last of the Entertainers

By: Barry Crocker,Reno Design

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Last of the Entertainers

By: Barry Crocker,Reno Design

A star-studedd story across fifty-five years in television, stage, screen and in recording.

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344

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0646912720

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9780646912721

Barry Rose's Anecdotage

By: Barry Rose

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Barry Rose's Anecdotage

By: Barry Rose

Barry Rose has had a full and eventful life: this book, consisting as it does of snippets of conversation he has had with all and sundry, is without 'form', its arrangement is not in datal or any other particular order, and is a book to be dipped into when there is an idle moment.

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204

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1870234057

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9781870234054

Barry Long's Journal

By: Barry Long

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Barry Long's Journal

By: Barry Long

This is the first volume of an annual journal providing a collection of writings, sayings, jottings, articles, letters and transcripts of talks, published to document a living teaching. This volume covers the period from August 1990 to January 1991.

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1899324089

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