SingaporeS Foreign Policy

AY2017/2018 Semester 1

This course examines Singapore's foreign policy with the rest of the world. It covers both the institutions, practices and personalities that shape the making of Singapore foreign policy and the substantive policies that emerge from the policy process. Singapore's role in ASEAN, its relations with ASEAN neighbors, China, India, US, Japan, Middle East, and Europe will be examined. Through discussion of past and present major international and regional problems and policy decisions, current foreign policy of Singapore is analyzed in terms of historic actions, political ideas, and consequences. This course also examines the key challenges facing Singapore foreign policy in the new international security environment of the 21st century.