IFE Fellow, Ali Wyne, Coauthors New Book on Lee Kuan Yew’s Strategic Insights

“I found myself engrossed this week by the calm, incisive wisdom of one of the few living statesmen in the world who can actually be called visionary. The wisdom is in a book, Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States and the World, a gathering of Mr. Lee’s interviews, speeches and writings….He is now89, a great friend of America, and his comments on the U.S. are pertinent to many of the debates in which we’re enmeshed.”​

“[This book] is packed with intelligence and insight. If you are interested in the future ofAsia, which means the future of the world, you’ve got to read this book.”

“Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World forms a kind of last testament of the ailing, 89-year-old Mr. Lee. It is based on interviews with Mr. Lee…to which the authors add a distillation of Mr. Lee’s speeches, writings and interviews with others over many years. The book focuses forward on Mr. Lee’s prognostications, not backward on his accomplishments. Messrs. Allison and Blackwill refrain from commentary on the man and his ideas, letting readers interpret for themselves.”

Selected Reviews “Graham Allison and Bob Blackwill have important questions to ask about China, America and the extraordinary impact of the relationship of those two countries on the rest of the world.  For answers, they turned to Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first premier and one of the world’s most formidable geopolitical thinkers and strategists.  The result is a fascinating book called Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World.”

“Lee’s powerful intellect is captured in a new book, Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World.  It’s a collection of interviews with him by Harvard University professor Graham Allison, Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Robert Blackwill and Harvard’s Belfer Center researcher Ali Wyne, while also drawing on other selected and cited writings by and about Lee….as the book, and the adaptation here of the China chapter, reveal, Lee is as sharp, direct and prescient as ever.  Though the volume was completed beforeChina’s current territorial tensions with its neighbors, it helps expose, and explain, Beijing’s hardball mind-set.”

“Lee’s powerful intellect is captured in a new book, Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World.  It’s a collection of interviews with him by Harvard University professor Graham Allison, Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Robert Blackwill and Harvard’s Belfer Center researcher Ali Wyne, while also drawing on other selected and cited writings by and about Lee….as the book, and the adaptation here of the China chapter, reveal, Lee is as sharp, direct and prescient as ever.  Though the volume was completed before China’s current territorial tensions with its neighbors, it helps expose, and explain, Beijing’s hardball mind-set.”