Jim Baker analyses the histories of Malaysia and Singapore and how these have contributed to a contemporary state-of-affairs where the regions are at an ideological crossroads.
Jim Baker is an American who has lived in Singapore and Malaysia for most of his life. He first published Crossroads in 1999, and subsequently wrote The Eagle in the Lion City (2005), an academic history of the American presence in Singapore. For over 30 years Jim taught history and economics at the Singapore American School.
