Singapore-Malaysia relations

Deep-seated tensions and self-fulfilling prophecies

Bibliographic Data

ID3986215
AuthorsLily Zubaidah Rahim (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume29
Issue1
Pages38-55
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00472339980000031
OpenAlexW2056067058
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited12

Venice was something unique among nations, half eastern half western, half land, half sea ... between Christianity and Islam, one foot in Europe, the other paddling in the pearls of Asia .... Her vocation was commerce; her countryside was the sea .... her function was that of a bridge between east and west; her obsession was political stability ... Venice was a sort of police state, except that instead of worshipping power, she was terrified of it, and refused it to any single one of her citizens; and by these means, at once fair and ferocious, she outlived her rivals, and preserved her republican independence until the very end of the eighteenth century ... [she maintained a] strange sense of isolation, of separateness, which had made her for so many centuries unique in Europe ... She was the most expert and unscrupulous of money-makers, frankly dedicated to profit ... No enemy has ever succeeded in taking Venice by storm ... She was never loved ... She was always the outsider, always envied, always suspected, always feared." James Morris

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