Politics & Economics

Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new--conspiracy without theory. And the new conspirac...

Award-winning poet and playwright Alfian Sa'at calls for greater support for the arts in our city-state.Paperback: 48 PagesProduct Dimensions: 120 ...

Political equality is the most basic tenet of democracy. Yet in America and other democratic nations, those with political power have special acces...

Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'nonalienated labour', but the rise of...

Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren...

illustrated by Piero Capitalism shapes every aspect of our world, beyond just our economic structures; it moulds our values and influences the way ...

Former diplomat Bilahari Kausikan highlights two global trends that can shape Singapore's future—identity politics and the rise of China—and how Ch...

The constitutional settlement under which Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of the PRC in 1997 was based on the idea of "one country...

When Trump fired James Comey, he triggered the appointment of Robert Mueller as an independent special counsel and caused the FBI to open a formal ...

‘The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi's Book of the Soul ...

Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment...

Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary flashed across the television screen...

2008 saw one of the worst financial crises in generations, the global implications of which are still being felt today. Ten years later Ben Bernank...

Finding opportunities for innovation on the path between farmer and table. Even if we think we know a lot about good and healthy food--even if we b...

As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics a...

Get Together is a practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community. Whether starting a run crew, connecting with fans online, or sparking a...

Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies...

The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will...

In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean r...

Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world. We think we know what that looks like: chaos descends and the military arrives to restore...

The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determi...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of capitalism, AI ...

This book examines the staying power of the People's Action Party, a political party that has governed Singapore since June 1959. A political titan...

Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or does th...

Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed the destiny of cou...

The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Money, it is claimed, is nothing more t...

In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a worl...

This collection of observations and thoughts on Singapore over the last two decades by Dr Chee Soon Juan adds crucially to a growing narrative of S...

Dr Cheong Koon Hean, CEO of the Housing and Development Board (2010–Present) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 5th S R Nathan Fellow for the Stu...

This radical new approach to dealing with North Korea offers a refreshing perspective on an intransigent and deadly situation. Imagine you control ...

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capi...

Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three decades of bo...

Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech...

From the Five Star Movement to Podemos, from the Pirate Parties to La France Insoumise, from the movements behind Bernie Sanders to those backing J...

Based on extensive interviews and archival material, The First Wave tells the story of the opposition in Singapore in its critical first thirty yea...

Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite ...

Professor Tan Tai Yong is the Institute of Policy Studies' 6th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of h...

Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literall...

Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Bar...

Former Nominated Member of Parliament Kuik Shiao-Yin shares the concerns of young voters and how a new generation of leaders can rise up to serve t...

Activist and journalist Kirsten Han examines the relationship between government and political journalists in Singapore.Paperback: 48 PagesProduct ...

From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological pro...

Taiwan is one of the great paradoxes of the international order. A place with its own flag, currency, government and military, but which most of th...

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a ...

It's time. This is our last chance to do anything about the global climate and ecological emergency. Our last chance to save the world as we know i...

When information is a weapon, everyone is at war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, s...

One morning in February 2001, internet entrepreneur Josh Harris woke to certain knowledge that he was about to lose everything. The man Time magazi...

The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day ...