I P S – N AT H A N L E C T U R E S SINGAPORE: THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS HO KWON PING EBSCO Publishing : eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) - printed on 1/7/2018 1:47 AM via NATIONAL LIBRARY BOARD AN: 1091540 ; Ho, Kwon Ping, Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore).; Ocean In A Drop, The Singapore: The Next Fifty Years Account: s6879889 Published by World Scientiic Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA ofice: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601 UK ofice: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. THE OCEAN IN A DROP Singapore: The Next Fifty Years Copyright © 2016 by World Scientiic Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN 978-981-4730-17-4 ISBN 978-981-4730-18-1 (pbk) In-house Editor: Sandhya Venkatesh Typeset by Stallion Press Email:
[email protected] Printed in Singapore EBSCO Publishing : eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) - printed on 1/7/2018 1:47 AM via NATIONAL LIBRARY BOARD AN: 1091540 ; Ho, Kwon Ping, Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore).; Ocean In A Drop, The Singapore: The Next Fifty Years Account: s6879889 You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop. — Rumi (Persian poet, 1207–1273) EBSCO Publishing : eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) - printed on 1/7/2018 1:47 AM via NATIONAL LIBRARY BOARD AN: 1091540 ; Ho, Kwon Ping, Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore).; Ocean In A Drop, The Singapore: The Next Fifty Years Account: s6879889 Dedicated to my family: My Parents, My Wife My Children And my Grandchildren EBSCO Publishing : eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) - printed on 1/7/2018 1:47 AM via NATIONAL LIBRARY BOARD AN: 1091540 ; Ho, Kwon Ping, Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore).; Ocean In A Drop, The Singapore: The Next Fifty Years Account: s6879889 CONTENTS Foreword xi Lecture I Politics and Governance (20 October 2014) 1 Questions a