Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World

Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World

Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World

Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World

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CNN “Book of the Week”
Featuring a foreword by Henry Kissinger

The grand strategist and founder of modern Singapore offers key insights and opinions on globalization, geopolitics, economic growth, and democracy in a series of interviews with the author of Destined for War, and others

“If you are interested in the future of Asia, which means the future of the world, you’ve got to read this book.” —Fareed Zakaria, CNN

 
When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage. Almost single-handedly responsible for transforming Singapore into a Western-style economic success, he offers a unique perspective on the geopolitics of East and West. American presidents from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama have welcomed him to the White House; British prime ministers from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair have recognized his wisdom; and business leaders from Rupert Murdoch to Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil, have praised his accomplishments. This book gathers key insights from interviews, speeches, and Lee’s voluminous published writings and presents them in an engaging question and answer format.

Lee offers his assessment of China’s future, asserting, among other things, that “China will want to share this century as co-equals with the U.S.” He affirms the United States’ position as the world’s sole superpower but expresses dismay at the vagaries of its political system. He offers strategic advice for dealing with China and goes on to discuss India’s future, Islamic terrorism, economic growth, geopolitics and globalization, and democracy. Lee does not pull his punches, offering his unvarnished opinions on multiculturalism, the welfare state, education, and the free market. This little book belongs on the reading list of every world leader.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780262312745
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 02/01/2013
Series: Belfer Center Studies in International Security
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 610,480
File size: 229 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Graham Allison is Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Robert D. Blackwill is Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ali Wyne is an associate of the Belfer Center.

Table of Contents

Foreword Henry A. Kissinger vii

Who Is Lee Kuan Yew? xi

When Lee Kuan Yew Talks, Who Listens? xiii

Preface xxv

Chapter 1 The Future of China 1

Chapter 2 The Future of the United States 19

Chapter 3 The Future of U.S.-China Relations 37

Chapter 4 The Future of India 51

Chapter 5 The Future of Islamic Extremism 67

Chapter 6 The Future of National Economic Growth 81

Chapter 7 The Future of Geopolitics and Globalization 95

Chapter 8 The Future of Democracy 111

Chapter 9 How Lee Kuan Yew Thinks 127

Chapter 10 Conclusion 151

Notes 159

About the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 191

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