Title: Singapore-Malaysia relations: Deep-seated tensions and self-fulfilling prophecies
Abstract: Abstract "…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
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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