The Singapore Lecture is designed to provide an opportunity for distinguished statesmen and leaders of thought and knowledge to reach a wider audience in Singapore. The 40th Singapore Lecture was delivered by François Hollande, President of the French Republic, on 27 March 2017 under the Chairmanship of Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore.
Places Indonesia at the forefront of the global debate about the impact of "disruptive” digital technologies. This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the impact of digitalisation on the media industry, governance, commerce, informal sector employment, education, cybercrime, terrorism, religion, and artistic and cultural expression in a diverse, geographically vast nations.
Based on observation of the 2016 Sarawak state elections at a time of political turmoil for the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, Electoral Dynamics in Sarawak offers four ethnographic accounts of grassroots electoral politics in diverse constituencies of Sarawak. This volume analyses the wider lessons to be learned from the 2016 Sarawak state elections.
The global centre of gravity continues to shift to the Asia-Pacific, the most dynamic region in the world. Twenty-seven leading international authorities in the field, drawn from nine countries, provide a comprehensive examination of the causes, consequences and challenges of globalization to the region, in a volume that celebrates the distinguished career of Professor Prema-Chandra Athukorala.
Showcases innovative research by a rising generation of scholars, analysts and practitioners about the past five years of political transformation in Myanmar. Each of its seventeen chapters builds on theoretically informed, evidence-based research to grapple with significant questions about ongoing violence and political contention.
Advocates a trans-regional, and maritime, approach to studying the genesis, development and circulation of tantric (or Esoteric) Buddhism across Maritime Asia from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries CE. The book lays emphasis on the mobile networks of human agents ("Masters”), textual sources ("Texts”) and images ("Icons”) through which tantric Buddhist traditions spread.
The world is full of self-improvement books. What sets Toshio Egawa's book apart is that its focus is more about being at The Top than about getting there. Of course, the traits that get you there and the traits that keep you there overlap in many cases. One could go further to say that it is not always clear whether one is on the way to the top, is at the top or is on the way down from the top.
