Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ang Cheng Guan
• Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
• Derek Heng

Titel

The Global and the Regional in Lee Kuan Yew’s Strategic Thought: The Early Cold War Years

Ist Teil von

• Singapore in Global History, 2011, p.235

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In studying Lee’s strategic thought, it is imperative to ask: what do I mean by ‘strategic thought’? The term ‘strategy’ means different things to different scholars. In the words of a strategic studies scholar, Bernard Loo, “at the end of the day, however, it seems to me that these notions of strategy really focus on the traditional definitions of security – the absence of external threats to states, in terms of both sovereignty as well as territorial integrity. In that regard, conceptions of geopolitics and how it translates into foreign policy exist quite comfortably within the rubric of security; and