Publication Type
Report
Year
1-2024
Abstract
How does Singapore conduct strategic diplomacy despite being a small and constrained state? This report first identifies the major long-term drivers affecting Singapore’s security, both at the domestic level (rapidly ageing population, immigrant assimilation, and growing societal fault-lines) and at the international or systemic level (changing global order, power of technology, slow collective action on climate change). Then it analyses how Singapore strategists deal with two of their most prominent problem-sets: (i) positioning Singapore in relation to the US-China rivalry and the changing international order; and (ii) tackling climate change as a collective action problem. Both problem-sets illustrate how Singapore frames the issues and seeks multiple entry-points to shape outcomes. The report finds that Singapore has managed to act with more agency and to create more policy space than we might expect. It concludes by discussing the remaining significant challenges identified by Singaporean policy elites.
Disciplines
Asian Studies | Strategic Management Policy
Subject(s)
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
Publisher
The Australian National University
Version
publishedVersion
Language
eng
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Format
application/PDF
Citation
GOH, Evelyn and Lim, Wee-Kiat.
Strategic diplomacy: The Singapore case, country report for the project on ‘Strategic Diplomacy for 21st Century Defence and Statecraft’. (2024). 1-24.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cmp_research/25
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https://www.strategicdiplomacy.net/_files/ugd/712891_b6cf3447a6a945c98f406bc0b3537adc.pdf