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Lee Kuan Yew played the pivotal role in Singapore's transition from British Crown Colony to independent developing nation, and on to the economically powerful and diplomatically influential city-state it is today. Throughout this surprising and at times painful journey, he has proved a charismatic and occasionally controversial leader. Lee is a conviction politician whose speeches are unambiguous, characterful and eminently quotable; this collection...
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#1 The Chinese have always believed that the country is safe only when the center is strong. A weak center means confusion and chaos, while a strong center leads to a peaceful and prosperous China.
#2 The Communist Party still retains its hold over China. The state security apparatus is able to nip any unrest in the bud, but it is also able to take the side of villagers...
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#1 The question of how China will behave as the dominant Asian power is central to the likely course of Asian and world history. China's leaders are serious about replacing the United States as the number 1 power in Asia, and they have a strategy for doing so.
#2 China's leaders believe that becoming the dominant Asian power will allow them to share the century with...
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[2022]
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"Kissinger analyses the lives of six...leaders through the distinctive strategies of statecraft, which he believes they embodied. After the Second World War, Konrad Adenauer brought defeated and morally bankrupt Germany back into the community of nations by what Kissinger calls 'the strategy of humility.' Charles de Gaulle set France beside the victorious Allies and renewed its historic grandeur by 'the strategy of will.' During the Cold War, Richard...
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Este libro es perfecto para individuos y grupos que navegan para convertirse en mejores líderes. Ya sea que seas un CEO o un gerente de recursos humanos que comienza su carrera con el deseo de afinar sus habilidades de liderazgo, o estés recibiendo capacitación ejecutiva para líderes de marcas y organizaciones sin fines de lucro, The Leadership Killer puede ayudar a guiarte en la dirección correcta.
Este libro contiene mucha información esencial...
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In 1953, Peter Mooney decided to forsake the stately precincts of Parliament House and the Advocates Library in the historic city of Edinburgh and accept the position of Crown Counsel, Sarawak, in far-off Borneo. During his time in Sarawak, Peter faced numerous colourful characters in court, from indigenous warriors sporting feathered headdresses and leopard's teeth earrings to the equally intimidating David Marshall and Lee Kuan Yew, lawyers who...
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#1 I went to see America's most successful modern general, David Petraeus, who had become director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 2011. I asked him whether the old hands at the Agency had begun opening for him some of the secret jewel boxes-the files containing the deepest, most classified secrets of the US government.
#2 Lee Kuan Yew was the founder and long-serving...
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#1 In 1956, the Chinese-speaking students took over their middle schools in Singapore. The colonial authorities dissolved the students' union and arrested its leaders, saying the organization had been infiltrated by communists. In protest, thousands of teenagers flooded onto their school grounds.
#2 Lee Kuan Yew, the leader of Singapore, had a very different approach to dealing with...
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EMBRACE DYSLEXIA is an initiative by the Dyslexia Association of Singapore (DAS) which endeavors to foster greater awareness about dyslexia with the aim of helping everyone to understand both the strengths and the challenges in the lives of individuals who have dyslexia. An initiative of EMBRACE DYSLEXIA was to encourage individuals with dyslexia to share their personal stories so that they may become role models for the young students that are supported...
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A compelling, illuminating and evocative history of Singapore-the world's most successful city-state.
In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed Malaysia, Singapore found itself independent - and facing a crisis. It took the bloody-minded determination and vision of Lee Kuan Yew, its founding premier, to take a small island of diverse...
12) Bangsa Malaysia
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The notion of Bangsa Malaysia was introduced in 1991 by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the country's fourth Prime Minister, as part of his Vision 2020, to bring about greater integration among the various ethnic groups within the country. The idea was to create an inclusive national identity for all inhabitants of Malaysia, thus abandoning the National Culture Policy that asserted a Malay ethnic national identity.However, Bangsa Malaysia has generated a...
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"The dictators of the twentieth century (think of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Mao Zedong) were repressive tyrants responsible for the deaths of millions. In addition to violence, they relied on propaganda, extensive survelliance networks, and brutal secret police. With the end of the Cold War, this style of dictatorship was on the decline. Yet autocracy itself is still a major global threat--but it is autocracy of a fundamentally different type,...
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À la découverte des traditions et de la culture de Singapour.
Singapour, en Occident, évoque d'abord les riches heures de l'époque coloniale, puis l'insolent succès, depuis les années 1960, d'une place financière et commerciale devenue incontournable. En deux générations, l'indépendance acquise en 1965 sous l'impulsion de Lee Kuan Yew, a profondément transformé l'identité du « Gibraltar d'Extrême-Orient ». Le melting pot singapourien...
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Daniel A. Bell is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public and Social Administration at the City University of Hong Kong He has also taught at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Communitarianism and Its Critics, the coauthor of Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia, and coeditor of The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights.
Is liberal democracy a universal ideal? Proponents of "Asian values" argue that it is a distinctive...