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- Title: India-Singapore Relations: Constructing a "New" Bilateral Relationship (Report)
- Author : Contemporary Southeast Asia
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 312 KB
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Post-independence, relations between Singapore and India have gone through various stages, reflecting different degrees of engagement. Over the last fifteen years, however, Singapore-India relations have experienced an upswing, characterized by closer collaboration across a range of areas. This paper aims to provide an assessment of the more recent trends in relations between the two countries, looking at both traditional issue areas such as economic and defence-strategic ties as well as areas that are deemed relatively "non-traditional" in nature, namely, education-knowledge transfer and building societal-level links between the two countries. This assessment will also explore future possibilities and potential pitfalls attendant on this bilateral relationship. There are five main sections to this paper. The first section looks at the relationships India fostered with Southeast Asian countries in the first three to four decades after its independence to serve as a context in which to locate more recent developments. The second section scrutinizes economic relations between Singapore and India, symbolized by the signing of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) in 2005. The third section examines defence and strategic relations, focusing on both concrete bilateral developments as well as specific shared visions of regional order within the Asia-Pacific region. The focus of the fourth section is on cooperation in education as well as specific forms of knowledge transfer. The fifth section examines more intangible factors centred on societal and cultural ties. The paper concludes by briefly recapping the main points as well as offering certain reflections on the future complexion of Singapore-India relations.