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Author: Bilveer Singh (Nus, S'pore) ,
Walid Jumblatt Abdullah (Ntu, S'pore) ,
Felix Thiam Kim Tan (Ntu, S'pore)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9789811227639
ISBN 10: 9811227632
Pages: 388
Publication Date: 12 January 2021
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Bilveer Singh is a born and bred Singaporean. He is currently an Associate Professor and Deputy Head at the Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore. He is concurrently an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for National Security, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. He received his MA and PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University. He has been lecturing on issues relating to Singapore and foreign policy for nearly 40 years. He researches and publishes on Comparative Politics and International Relations and some of his recent works include: Is the People's Action Party Here to Stay? Analysing the Resilience of the One-Party Dominant State in Singapore, Singapore: World Scientific, 2019; Understanding Singapore Politics, Singapore: World Scientific, 2017; Quest for Political Power: Communist Subversion and Militancy in Singapore, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2015; Politics and Governance in Singapore, McGraw Hill Education Asia, 2012. Walid Jumblatt Abdullah is currently an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University's Public Policy and Global Affairs Program. He received his joint PhD from the National University of Singapore and King's College London. He researches on issues relating to state and religion in Southeast Asia with a special focus on Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. He has published widely in leading academic journals including in Asian Studies Review, Democratization, International Political Science Review, among others. He has written extensively on Singapore and some of his key journal articles include: ""Electoral Secularism in Singapore: Political Responses to Homosexuality"", ""'New Normal' No More: Democratic Backsliding in Singapore after 2015"", inter alia. He recently started the 'Teh Tarik With Walid' series on Instagram — a platform on which he is still finding his feet — where he engages politicians from different parties in a candid discussion. Felix Tan Thiam Kim is currently an Associate Lecturer with the Singapore Institute of Management (Global Education), where he lectures on International Relations; Foreign Policy Analysis and Modern Asia. He holds a PhD in Comparative Government and Politics from the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research examined how Political Islam and the process of Islamisation has affected the socio-political space in Indonesia and Malaysia. He continues to focus his research on the democratisation, government and politics in Singapore and Southeast Asia. His work ""ASEAN Politics: Who Should Accept Responsibility for Rohingya Refugees at Sea"" was published in the Journal of ASEAN Plus as well as a commentary on ""The Rise of Myanmar's Opposition"" in TODAY. He also regularly provides insights on Singapore politics and government to local and international media outlets, leveraging on his previous experience as both a broadcast journalist and a media studies educator.
