The phenomenon of the global city-state in world politics

Singapore is the only city-state in the world that has successfully formed the infrastructure and prerequisites for active involvement in global transnational flows, which allows it to be interpreted as a global city-state, which determines the relevance of this study. The purpose of the research is to study the phenomenon of a global city-state through the prism of its political structure, the specifics of the political regime and public administration processes. The materials of the study were the current works of Russian and foreign researchers in the field of public administration, political science, and urban studies. The research methods used were general scientific approaches, as well as research concepts corresponding to the object and purpose of the study - a specific historical method, a systems approach, the concepts of neoliberalism, transregionalism, global city, and political leadership. The study identified the specifics of the political regime and state structure of Singapore, the characteristic features of the formation and development of a fully urbanized territory, and also examined the issues of the genesis of this territorial entity. It was revealed that the formation of Singapore as a city-state was determined by the specifics of colonial and post-colonial processes of the SEA macro-region of the world, a fully urbanized territory allows for its comprehensive development, based on a single state concept, implementing “smart city” technologies, and the political regime is characterized by features of authoritarianism, has a paternalistic nature. In the sphere of state structure of the global city-state of Singapore, significant specifics were revealed in the form of the formation of a power conglomerate of national and municipal levels of power.