Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore’s Future

By Joshua Kurlantzick

March 28, 2015

http://thediplomat.com/2015/03/lee-kuan-yew-and-singapores-future/

Singapore is much better prepared for the post-Lee Kuan Yew era than many of its critics admit. 

In the wake of the death of Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, many obituaries lauding Lee’s role in transforming the city-state also have argued that Singapore faces high hurdles to continuing Lee’s revolution. As Forbes’ Joel Kotkin writes, Lee’s achievements during his three decades as prime minister were extraordinary, but in Singapore today the “durability of his legacy is in question.”