Diplomacy in Hard Times: Singapore Confronts Global Terrorism and Regional Regression

This chapter was originally presented as a paper at the Singapore Perspectives 2002 Conference, organized by the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore, January 16, 2002 and appears as a chapter in Chang Li Lin, ed., 2002 Perspectives on Singapore, Singapore, Times Academic Press and Institute of Policy Studies, 2002. Valuable research assistance for this paper was provided by Tan Ban Seng of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore.