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 that spectral night forty years ago. All the three researchers from ISEAS who each authored separate chapters for this book were in different parts of Malaysia monitoring its 12th General Election during the thirteen days of campaigning. Their analyses provide new insights into the phenomenon that Malaysians now simply...
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, 2...
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 statea's competitive advantage. In the 1970s the ageing entrepAi??t transformed itself into a manufacturing hub for the electronics industry and a well-known tourist site. This outward-looking model of economic growth has underpinned Penanga's economic development up until the present. The question that now arises is whether Penanga's present mode of development will continue to be effective or whether it will have...
However impressive the economic success of Penang has been over the past four decades structural conditions in the region call for a fundamental recon...
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 of the five prime ministers. One chapter delves into relations with immediate neighbouring states and another chapter analyses the political economy of foreign policy. A postscript deals with the transition of foreign policy beyond the fifth decade. The concluding chapter suggests that Malaysian middlepowermanship has...
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 au...
This work examines the ways in which Muslim politics in Southeast Asia has impacted democratic practice and contributed to its practical and discursive development. It provides comparisons and linkages amongst Muslim-majority and -minority countries, to aid understanding of the phenomenon of Muslim politics in the region.
This work examines the ways in which Muslim politics in Southeast Asia has impacted democratic practice and contributed to its practical and discursiv...
This book argues that Malaysia's electoral politics have historically been premised on a hybridized model of communalism and consociationalism. Beyond this it posits a newer idea of power sharing based on the dynamic and transformative practice of mediated communalism through six decades (1952-2016) of electoral politics. The strategy of mediating communalism is critically explored throughout the book, serving to test its saliency as a distinct approach to power sharing in a social formation which is ethnically, religiously and regionally divided, yet has remained remarkably and tenuously...
This book argues that Malaysia's electoral politics have historically been premised on a hybridized model of communalism and consociationalism. Bey...
