Managing Global Risks in the Urban Age: Singapore and the Making of a Global City

ISBN-13: 9781138571976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 248 str.

Heng, Yee-Kuang

Opis

Innovative in its approach integrating theories about Global Cities with those positing a Global Risk Society, Yee-Kuang Heng positions this research in the midst of two concurrent global trends that will gain more significance in coming years. The world is experiencing the consequences of not only rapid globalisation, but also urbanization. Unique in developing a typology of global risks that threaten a global city like Singapore, beyond its Asian focus, the book also draws out thematic and policy lessons pertinent to other global cities.

Recenzje

’Yee-Kuang Heng's book is a model of its kind. It offers us a unique insight into today's global cities such as Singapore and the risks they face on an everyday basis. It also explains what this means for international security and in turn for Security Studies. Finally, it represents an urgent wake-up call to look beyond our previous preoccupation with nation-states and geopolitics and to identify instead the often hidden social and economic global structures that determine day to day life in the metropolitan centres in which for the first time in history the majority of human beings now live.’ Christopher Coker, London School of Economics, UK ’Asia’s urban population is about to explode. New cities and new mega-cities will emerge. Yet these new cities will also face new global risks. This is why this book by Yee-Kuang Heng could not be more timely. Drawing on Singapore’s remarkable success in urban management, he suggests new theoretical and policy frameworks to help Asian and global policymakers deal with new global risks.’ Kishore Mahbubani, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Urban Order, Global Risks; Chapter 2 Mobilities, Flows and Infrastructures; Chapter 3 Financial Centres as Portals of Global Financial Risks; Chapter 4 Connectivity Hurts; Chapter 5 Major Port Hubs and the Circulation of Global Maritime Risks; Chapter 6 Global Cities;

O autorze

Yee-Kuang Heng is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS). An alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and author of several books and articles on risk and security studies, he previously lectured at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and the University of St Andrews, United Kingdom.