Examines the ways in which Muslim politics in Southeast Asia has greatly impacted democratic practice and contributed to its practical and discursive development. This book offers comparisons and linkages amongst Muslim-majority and -minority countries, to aid understanding of t…
This book captures Malaysia's foreign policy over the first fifty years and beyond since the date of the country's formal independence in 1957. The author provides "macro-historical" narratives of foreign policy practices and outcomes over distinct time periods under the tenures…
However impressive the economic success of Penang has been over the past four decades, structural conditions in the region call for a fundamental reconfiguration of this Malaysian state's competitive advantage. In the 1970s, the ageing entrepôt transformed itself into a manufact…
March 8: eclipsing May 13
by Saravanamuttu, J., (Jayaratnam), Ooi, Kee Beng, Lee, Hock Guan
March 8: eclipsing May 13
by Saravanamuttu, J., (Jayaratnam), Ooi, Kee Beng, Lee, Hock Guan
March 8: eclipsing May 13
by Saravanamuttu, J., (Jayaratnam), Ooi, Kee Beng, Lee, Hock Guan
For a whole generation of Malaysians, no proper closure to the traumas of the racial riots of May 13, 1969 has been possible. But then came March 8, 2008 The surprising results of the General Election on that special day have started eclipsing the fears linked for so long to tha…