ABSTRACT
The protracted Kampuchean conflict was then entering its ninth year with no resolution in sight, but among liberal academic circles in the region it was already becoming fashionable to talk of “the peace process.” The domestic structure of Singapore's foreign policy making has also fitted nicely into the realist state-centric “billiard-ball model” of international relations. Singapore's attainment of international stature and status of a developed state with commendable skill despite initial fears for its own viability as a sovereign nation is part of the success story of what Leifer calls “an exceptional state”. Currently, Singapore in its perennial search for economic opportunities abroad has caught another round of the “Indian fever” after the initial reaching out to India during the early 1990s.
