Book Review: Constructing Singapore. Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation-Building Project

National Service and Nation Building in Singapore

 Effective policy decisions about potential modifications to NS require a clear understanding of its effects. The nature of the program, however, presents problems for conventional approaches to program evaluation. This project uses innovative techniques to overcome these constraints and generate insights into the efficacy of NS. It finds strong evidence that NS has the potential to profoundly...

Book Review of Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore

The Challenges Facing State-Nation-Building in Israel

Completing the nation-building process for survival is one of the challenges that the Zionist regime has always faced. This regime has based its existence on a specific and complex identity that, at first glance, can be a strong point for the survival and formation of a society, but the specific characteristics of this identity based on race and population inequality, for This has posed some ch...

Nation - building

Nations stay together when citizens share enough values and preferences. Homogeneity amongst people can be built with education, teaching a common language to facilitate communication, but also by brute force such as prohibiting local cultures. Democracies and dictators have different incentives when it comes to choosing how much and by what means to homogenize the population. We study and we c...

Modernism and Nation Building