SINGAPORE – THE POWER OF THE SMALL ONE

Professor Alba Iulia Catrinel POPESCU, Ph.D*

 

 

Abstract: At first glance, Singapore is just a dot on the map of the globe. A port, transformed into a city and a city transformed into a micro-state. And yet, Singapore has enormous geostrategic and geoeconomic importance. This article aims at presenting the geopolitical, geostrategic and geoeconomic resorts that transformed the small British colony of Singapore into one of the “Asian tigers” and the impact of this metamorphosis on the regional geopolitical game. The research model is linear, starting from the objectives, continuing with data collection, analysis and synthesis and ending with the formulation of conclusions. The research methods used are specific to geopolitics and combine data analysis and synthesis with ambispective, statistical and descriptive methods.

Keywords: geopolitical analysis, geopolitical nexus, geo-economic hub, micro-state geopolitics, Asia Pacific Region, Malacca Strait, Phillip Channel.

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DOI   10.56082/annalsarscimilit.2025.3.104 

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* „CAROL I”  National Defence University, Associated member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists, email: albapopescu1@gmail.com.


PUBLISHED in Annals Academy of Romanian Scientists Series on Military SciencesVolume 17 no 3, 2025 

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