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Series:   Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia

Singapore

Identity, Brand, Power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2018

Kenneth Paul Tan
Kenneth Paul Tan
Affiliation:
National University of Singapore

Summary

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.
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Singapore politicssociety, and cultureGramscian hegemonyLegitimacy: democracyperformancemoral authorityMulticulturalism: racelanguagereligionCreative cityglobal city
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Series: Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia
Online ISBN: 9781108561273
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 30 August 2018

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