Study Of Singapore's Strategy Of Balancing Great Powers

2015 is the 50 thyear anniversary of the founding of Singapore.The country which extreme lack of security,needs to buy subsistence goods from neighboring country in the early stage of independence.After 50 year's development,Singapore has finally become a powerful nation in the world. The reason why did Singapore get a living space in the international system which dominated by the great powers,and has enhanced its international influence in the complex environment is the strategy of balancing great powers.The formation and development of the Singapore's strategy is due to that most powerful nation exists in Southeast Asia.By studying the bilateral and multilateral diplomatic activities of Singapore and the great powers in different historical periods,It's easy to find that under the influence of the small country's crisis awareness and the balance of thought etc,Singapore have built relationships with the United States,Japan,China,Russia(Soviet Union),India and other foreign powerful nations actively. It's why it can maintain the independence and security of the country.Singapore has built interest relationship with the great powers in the Military field,Political field and Economic field.According to the contrast of the powerful nation and the development of the Domestic politics, Singapore has selected different partners and developed a mode which named “small country,big diplomatism”.The paper consists of three parts: The first part is the pandect which has explained the significance of the research,the current research situation and the research content etc.The second part is the main body,and it is divided into six chapters.The main body mainly discussed the origin of the balance of powers,the implementation of the balance strategy,the characteristic of the strategy,the evaluation of the strategy and how the strategy impact China,Southeast Asian's Policy. The third part is the end part,it is a summary and a reflection of the full text.Other small and medium-sized countries all admire the ideas and the diplomatic achievements of Singapore.However, Singapore's strategy is not immutable, it changes with the transformation of the international situation and the development of the domestic situation so as to make the strategy adapted to the times.Now, The balance strategy still has important value,and it will play an important role in the long period.