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100	1		_aSIM Li-Chen
245			_aSingapore's relations with the Gulf: _bfrom defensive to positive engagement/ _cLi-Chen Sim
260			_c2022
520			_aIn the early 2000s, the Middle East was not high on the list of Singapore's priorities. Of late, however, a more purposeful engagement with the Gulf is evident. This paper adopts an approach grounded in foreign policy analysis to analyze the extent to which Singapore's engagement with the Gulf is shaped by security-related developments in the latter. It draws largely upon qualitative analysis, interviews, and quantitative data from sources in Singapore. Section one provides the relevant theoretical overview according to which domestic sources, in this case Singapore's strategic culture of "vulnerability," frames the conduct of foreign policy. Section two examines Singapore-Gulf relations along three security-related pathways - public order, economic prosperity, and domestic energy mix - and the extent to which they are filtered by the city-state's "vulnerability." Section three concludes with some thoughts about the outlook for maintaining the momentum in relations between interlocutors on the fringes of Asia.
650			_aSINGAPORE
650			_aA STRATEGIC CULTURE OF "VULNERABILITY"
650			_aSINGAPORE-GULF RELATIONS _xGULF INSECURITY
650			_aECONOMIC PROSPERITY
773			_aAsian Security: _gVol 18, No. 3, 2022, pp. 257-274 (21A)
598			_aSING, ASIA, ASIAN, SECURITY, ECONOMICS
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14799855.2022.2106130 _zClick here for full text
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