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Acknowledgements This book is the outcome of a research project at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), where I work as a Visiting Research Fellow. I am indebted to Mr K. Kesavapany, the Director of ISEAS, and Dr Chin Kin Wah, the Deputy Director, for supporting this project. Dr David Koh, Coordinator of the Regional Strategic and Political Studies Programme under which the project falls, helped me with advice on the importance of structure in a book’s value and appeal. Mr Verghese Mathews, Mr Mark Hong and Mr Sudhir Devare, three of my colleagues at ISEAS, shared with me their insights into how international relations are conducted and how the great issues of war and peace are decided for generations to come. Another person from whom I learnt a great deal is Mr Lee Khoon Choy, the veteran politician, diplomat and former Senior Minister of State who organized the groundbreaking trips made by the Republic’s leaders to China from 1975 to 1980. Mrs Y.L. Lee, ISEAS’ Head of Administration, and Mrs Christina Goh, the Personal Assistant to the Director, were unfailing sources of help in matters administrative and more. Mrs Triena Ong, Managing Editor of ISEAS’ Publications Unit, ensured the manuscript’s smooth and speedy transition to a book, which has benefited from the Production Editor, Ms Fatanah Sarmani’s unerring eye for detail. I am grateful to all of them. 00 BRisingPowers Prelims 8/1/07, 3:54 PM 13 Outside ISEAS, I benefited from the intellectual climate created by the presence of distinguished scholars in the universities, think-tanks and research institutes: Dean Barry Desker of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, who kindly has contributed this book’s Foreword; Professor Wang Gungwu and Professor John Wong of the East Asian Institute; Dean Kishore Mahbubani of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; Professor Tommy Koh and Mr Arun Mahizhnan of the Institute of Policy Studies; Mr Gopinath Pillai and Professor Tan Tai Yong of the Institute of South Asian Studies; and Professor Simon S.C. Tay of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. I also wish to thank the anonymous reviewers who read the manuscript and reverted with their criticism, praise and suggestions for change. I have incorporated their recommendations wherever possible, as a result of which this book is much better than the manuscript that it began life as. However, I solely am responsible for any errors or faults that might remain. Dr Charles Leslie Wayper, who supervised both my M.Phil. and my M. Litt. theses at Cambridge University, passed away in early 2006. He always had more concern for his students’ books than for his own. To him, and to his wife, Mrs Hilda Margaret Wayper, this book is dedicated in gratitude and remembrance. xiv Acknowledgements 00 BRisingPowers Prelims 8/1/07, 3:54 PM 14 ...