Singapore was not always a sovereign state. It was not until 1965 that Singapore became its own sovereign state, where our own people ruled our territory. There were many challenges that Singapore faced then, moving into independence without any natural resources. One of the most prominent problem then, and it still is now, is maintaining our sovereignty. Sovereignty is an important matter as our nation’s progress is highly dependent on it. Our country’s sovereignty is supported by our cohesive society, economic progress and our military strength (Tan & Soon, 2014). Our government continues to be met with challenges when maintaining the city-state’s sovereignty. The challenges faced by Singapore to maintain our sovereignty includes both …show more content…
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When asked about the definition of a sovereign nation, Selma Buckwheat (September 25, 2013), elder member of the Anishinabeg tribe, explains by stating, “We govern ourselves and have our own laws” (personal communication). They have a lot of meetings that help understand most of the sovereign nations. In other words, a sovereign nation is power or a territory existing as an independent s...
Sovereignty is the power of self-rule, self-determination, freedom, and can belong during and after World War II, the United States struggled to unify under Cold War fears, political unrest, and international pressure. Sovereignty acts as a tool of both unity and disunity as the United States attempts to navigate suburbanization, foreign policy, race, generational differences, and shifting political ideologies while establishing itself as a world power.
World Studies Summer Homework Analytic Essay The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen has tremendous importance to the French History, as well as the Declaration of Independence has significant importance to the history of the United States of America. The Declaration of Independence had a huge significance to the United States, as the document declared our independence from Great Britain. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen limits the power of the crown, and authority of the government, and gives more freedom to citizens from the government and crown. Both documents have great importance, in both the United States, and French history.
...build a sturdy foundation of sustainable financial management practices that will support the nation’s safety against Department operations for years to come. It will take continued shared efforts to address the cost associated with the tasked of safety against all threats on our nations.
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Sovereignty should be clearly differentiated and distinguished. It is divided into legal sovereignty as well as political sovereignty. Legal sovereignty is concerned with the legal relationship between the courts and Parliament.
Comparative advantage means that an industry, firm, country or individual are able to produce goods and services at a lower opportunity cost than others which are also producing the same goods and services. Also, in order to be profitable, the number in exports must be higher than the number in import. From the diagram we seen above, Singapore is seen to have a comparative advantage in some services. The services are Transport, Financial, business management, maintenance & Repair and Advertising & Market Research, etc. These export services to other countries improve the balance of payment. On the other side, Singapore is seen to have a comparative disadvantage in some services. The services are Travel, Telecommunications, Computer & Information,
The belief of a nation running their own state is a right for most of us. However, this is only a new conviction. The right for one to sovereign their own nation has come due with hard work. Illicit imperialism has stricken humanity for numerous years. Due to the aspiration of power certain nations today do not self-govern their own state. But why would there be a desire for this power? Some of the main items include natural resources, increased assets, and military expansion. Ideally this is great if this is voluntary external rule, but when it’s no longer voluntary this is when the boundary has been crossed. This is why every nation should have control over their own state if they desire.
The subject of national sovereignty presents a puzzle. On the one hand, the notion of the sovereignty of the state figures importantly in our descriptions of, and our prescriptions for, global political change. (1) For example, a natural characterization of the political changes in Eastern Europe and Central Asia preceding and following the demise of the Soviet Union is that a number of national political communities have vigorously asserted, sometimes by force of arms, claims to national sovereignty. Against this is the claim that, as a result of the contemporary realities of global affairs, national sovereignty has become irrelevant, an anachronistic notion. According to this view, there is a variety of factors which, especially in the past several decades, have drained states of their sovereignty by depriving them of the ability to protect themselves and their citizens from the negative effects of the actions of other states or outside groups. The most important of these factors are the accelerating pace of global economic integration and the increasingly wide-spread and detrimental human impact on the environment.
Using Singapore to debate has an interesting point of view. After it separation from Malaysia at 9 of August 1965. The nation became an independent state. Singapore was on her own, a tiny island lack of natural resource such as oil and rubber plantation, and on the other hand Singapore own a strategic harbour location.
Since Singapore gained sovereignty in 1965 from Malaysia, its politics has been dominated by the People Action Party. Under the leadership of People Action Party, Singapore has a “distinct political culture: authoritarian, pragmatic, rational and legalistic.” Economic growth and political stability were maintained by the People Action Party’s guidance. Thus, Singapore is corruption- free government where power is gained through skill and performance that attracted investments from other countries (“Introduction to Singapore’s political system”, 2011). Singapore scored the point of 1.33 in the 2009 World Bank’s governance indicators for the factor political stability. The government also opens a number of sectors such as financial services o, telecommunications, power generation, and retail to increase competition and foreign firms (eStandardsForum, February 2010).
Singapore is a one of the unique sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. As a multicultural society, diverse ethnic groups have formed and shaped the country and its identity. Singapore has four official languages, freedom of religion, and diversified culture. The country may be small ostensibly, but it is one of the recognized countries in the world with its diversified culture and great education system.
An economic powerhouse, Singapore 's highly educated and employed populace is vaguely reminiscent of a Western society, at least more so than Malaysia 's. There is no prominent, let alone state-managed, system of racial or religious discrimination. In fact, Singapore seems to go out of its way to make identity a non-issue for Singaporeans (Lecture 7), who seem more concerned about the influence of foreigners than about racial divisions amongst themselves (Lecture 10). However, I argue that the very act of attempting to make racial and ethnic identity a non-issue is in and of itself an act of identity politics. Singapore 's fastidious management and extensive urban planning, carried out in large part by Lee Kuan Yew and the People 's Action Party, is a prime example of identity politics at play in Singapore. Singapore 's architects designed the island-nation carefully, its small size putting a premium on developmental space, encouraging extensive forethought (Lecture 7). For instance, Singapore was made to be equally accessible to all residents via the mass-transit SMRT system, with no region more economically or socially desirable than another (at least in theory) and this in part discouraged the formation of ethnic ghettos (Ibid). Similarly, Singapore 's highly coveted public housing units are designed and managed by the PAP, and their ethnic compositions are carefully managed so as to be representative