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Title: | Comparing foreign policy and development in Malta and Singapore after 1964 : between surviving, thriving and taking risks |
Authors: | Chong, Alan |
Keywords: | Economic development -- Malta Economic development -- Singapore Branding (Marketing) -- Malta Branding (Marketing) -- Singapore International relations Geopolitics -- Malta Geopolitics -- Singapore |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
Publisher: | University of Malta. Islands and Small States Institute |
Citation: | Chong, A. (2020). Comparing foreign policy and development in Malta and Singapore after 1964 : between surviving, thriving and taking risks. Small States & Territories, 3(2), 433-454. |
Abstract: | Malta and Singapore attained full independence nearly a year apart: 21 September 1964 and 9 August 1965 respectively. Yet today, despite being self-classified as small states, Singapore has been treated as a developed economy by the OECD and is widely acknowledged to be a ‘behind the scenes’ helmsman of the regional security architecture in the Asia-Pacific. Malta, in contrast, appears to be a relative diplomatic bystander enunciating its own principles of sovereign difference, calling for EU and Mediterranean regional forums to address non- traditional security issues, and focussing heavily on growing a service economy in finance, tourism, electronics and freight transhipment. Singapore’s growth trajectory takes on these areas as well, but also experiments with designs to establish itself as a transportation and communications hub for Asia. This preliminary comparison of Malta and Singapore as small states will proceed through three categories of examination: stabilising the geopolitical environment for growth; experiments in integration into a global economy; and the idea of a globally branded small state. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/63429 |
Appears in Collections: | SST Vol. 3, No. 2, November 2020 SST Vol. 3, No. 2, November 2020 |
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