Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2201076
James Chin
ABSTRACT The PAP will probably remain in power, in the short term at least, after the ‘fourth generation‘ (4G) takes over in the next general elections. The most likely scenario is for the 4G to maintain power but with much smaller majorities. If the PAP were to lose power, it would be because of mismanagement in three specific areas: the economy, foreign talent and elite cohesion. The 4G leaders are unlikely to make radical changes to the Singapore system. Singapore will not be a Western-type liberal democracy, and any real reforms to the political system will have to wait for the 5G leadership.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2201075
Marcus Teo
ABSTRACT As public discourse moves online, Singapore’s Government has increasingly begun to regulate online speech via the use of Targeted Speech Directions, which are issued against statements or communications deemed to amount to fake news or foreign interference. This article maps the law on Targeted Speech Directions in Singapore, touching on three issues – the consistency of these Directions with constitutional theories of free speech, the extent of judicial oversight available and the applicable evidential rules in challenges brought to these Directions – which bear materially on how these Directions are used and their influence on the future Singaporean public discourse.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2201057
Daniel P. S. Goh
ABSTRACT The bowing out of the designated successor to the leadership of the long-ruling People’s Action Party, Heng Swee Keat, and thus the prime ministership of Singapore in April 2021 led to a sense of political crisis in the illiberal state. This article argues that this troubled third leadership transition was preceded and conditioned by the similarly troubled protracted first leadership transition in the 1980s and 1990s. The technocratic statecraft that framed the first transition is ill-adapted to tackle the new contentious politics that have gathered pace since the 2011 general election, thus engendering the sense of crisis.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-08DOI: 10.1007/s41066-023-00363-4
Anam Luqman, Gulfam Shahzadi
The utilization of electrical and electronics equipments in waste recycling has become a paramount for various countries. The waste electrical and electronics equipment (WEEE) recyclers own a crucial position in the environmental growth of a country as they help to minimize the carbon emissions during the recycling of WEEE in the most eco-friendly way. Therefore, the selection and assessment of an appropriate WEEE recycling partner has become a most important part of DM (decision-making) applications. The collusion of numerous quantitative and qualitative factors makes the recycling partner selection problem, a multifaced and significant decision for the managerial experts. The main objective of this work is to propose MADM (multi-attribute decision-making) techniques to evaluate the WEEE recycling partners under interval-valued Fermatean fuzzy (IVFF) information. In this regard, certain Hamacher AOs (aggregation operators) are proposed to develop the required DM method. These AOs include Hamacher weighted averaging, ordered weighted averaging, weighted geometric, ordered weighted geometric, generalized Einstein weighted averaging, generalized Einstein ordered weighted averaging, generalized Einstein weighted geometric, etc. Then, these averaging operators are utilized to come up with a MADM techniques under IVFF environment. Furthermore, the constructed technique is applied to a case study in China to incorporate with the e-waste recycling partner selection problem. Moreover, a brief comparison of the proposed with is presented with various existing techniques to manifest the productivity and coherence of the proposed model. Finally, the accuracy and consistency of results shows that the proposed technique is fully compatible and applicable to handle any MADM problem.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2165758
T. Barringer
Judicializing Everything? The Clash of Constitutionalism in Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, Toronto, Toronto University Press, 2022, 192 pp. ISBN 9781487528485. A Cultural History of the British Empire, by John M. MacKenzie, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2022, xv + 418 pp. ISBN (hardback) 9780300260786. Mountbatten, Cold War and Empire 1945-1979. By Adrian Smith, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 288 pp. ISBN (hardback) 9781350230262.
{"title":"Commonwealth Bookshelf","authors":"T. Barringer","doi":"10.1080/00358533.2023.2165758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2023.2165758","url":null,"abstract":"Judicializing Everything? The Clash of Constitutionalism in Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, Toronto, Toronto University Press, 2022, 192 pp. ISBN 9781487528485. A Cultural History of the British Empire, by John M. MacKenzie, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2022, xv + 418 pp. ISBN (hardback) 9780300260786. Mountbatten, Cold War and Empire 1945-1979. By Adrian Smith, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 288 pp. ISBN (hardback) 9781350230262.","PeriodicalId":35685,"journal":{"name":"Round Table","volume":"112 1","pages":"104 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49612444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2165302
H. Ogawa
ABSTRACT Tadao Yanaihara was the most prominent intellectual in pre-war Japan who worked on the study of empire and colonial policy and he seems increasingly to attract a large part of the scholarly attention in English and Japanese literatures on pre-war colonial policy studies in Japan. However, more attention should be paid to figures who belonged to preceding generations such as Shimpei Goto and Inazo Nitobe, because they played significant roles in the early establishment of colonial policy studies in Japan, to which public health and agricultural administration could be considered as central. The interactions between these figures, especially between Goto and Nitobe and between Nitobe and Yanaihara, are important factors in understanding pre-war Japanese colonial policy studies. In addition, a comparison with Britain and an examination of inter-imperial relations between Britain and Japan (particularly the influence of the former on the latter) will help enhance our understanding about characteristics of colonial policy studies in pre-war Japan. This article attempts to advance such understanding.
{"title":"Public health, agricultural administration, and colonial policy studies in pre-war Japan: a comparison with imperial and Commonwealth studies in Britain","authors":"H. Ogawa","doi":"10.1080/00358533.2023.2165302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2023.2165302","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Tadao Yanaihara was the most prominent intellectual in pre-war Japan who worked on the study of empire and colonial policy and he seems increasingly to attract a large part of the scholarly attention in English and Japanese literatures on pre-war colonial policy studies in Japan. However, more attention should be paid to figures who belonged to preceding generations such as Shimpei Goto and Inazo Nitobe, because they played significant roles in the early establishment of colonial policy studies in Japan, to which public health and agricultural administration could be considered as central. The interactions between these figures, especially between Goto and Nitobe and between Nitobe and Yanaihara, are important factors in understanding pre-war Japanese colonial policy studies. In addition, a comparison with Britain and an examination of inter-imperial relations between Britain and Japan (particularly the influence of the former on the latter) will help enhance our understanding about characteristics of colonial policy studies in pre-war Japan. This article attempts to advance such understanding.","PeriodicalId":35685,"journal":{"name":"Round Table","volume":"112 1","pages":"27 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43873490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2165307
Enoch M. Lieu, A. Yu
{"title":"Repealing 337A: Is Singapore finally catching up with LGBT rights?","authors":"Enoch M. Lieu, A. Yu","doi":"10.1080/00358533.2023.2165307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2023.2165307","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35685,"journal":{"name":"Round Table","volume":"112 1","pages":"90 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46763264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2023.2165367
Rahul Mishra
ABSTRACT Establishing a non-aligned bloc at the height of the power politics-ridden Cold War era was one of the most profound normative contributions India made to the modern international order. This article argues that NAM was a pragmatic yet principled approach to dealing with a world dominated by divisive power politics. For India, non-alignment still lives on to a certain extent in the form of its spirited defence of strategic autonomy and the recent iteration of ‘multi-alignment’ in Indian foreign policy to deal with an uncertain world.
{"title":"From non-alignment to multi-alignment: assessing India’s foreign policy shift","authors":"Rahul Mishra","doi":"10.1080/00358533.2023.2165367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2023.2165367","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Establishing a non-aligned bloc at the height of the power politics-ridden Cold War era was one of the most profound normative contributions India made to the modern international order. This article argues that NAM was a pragmatic yet principled approach to dealing with a world dominated by divisive power politics. For India, non-alignment still lives on to a certain extent in the form of its spirited defence of strategic autonomy and the recent iteration of ‘multi-alignment’ in Indian foreign policy to deal with an uncertain world.","PeriodicalId":35685,"journal":{"name":"Round Table","volume":"112 1","pages":"43 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47392540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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