Perspectives on Singapore 2002 is a collection of papers that were presented at a conference in January organised by The Institute of Policy Studies, a public policy think-tank in Singapore. Perspectives endeavours to provide forward-looking insights into developments in the domestic and international environments.

Issues covered in this volume include:

Singapore Politics

• The Coming Crisis: Domestic Politics in Singapore in and from 2001
• Singapore’s 2001 General Election and its implication for the Future of Democracy and Politics in the Republic

Singapore as an International Player

• Diplomacy in Hard Times: Singapore Confronts Global Terrorism and Regional Regression
• The Security of Nusantara Southeast Asia in the 21st Century

Singapore’s Economy and Trade Policy

• Global U, Pricing Power and Singapore Stones – Cyclical and Structural Challenge Confronting the Singapore Economy 2002 and Beyond
  
• Singapore’s New Commercial Trade Strategy: the Pros and Cons of Bilateralism

AT Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine Globalization Index 2002

• In the 2001 Index, Singapore was ranked the most globalised country whereas it has dropped to number three in 2002. Can Singapore retain its global connectedness?

Thinking Out of the Box

• Can a Communitarian Society Nurture Creativity and Innovation?

Chang, Li Lin, ed. 2002. Perspectives on Singapore 2002. Singapore: Times Academic Press for IPS.

(176 pages, ISBN 981 210 195 0)