[PDF] Malaysian Foreign Policy In The Mahathir Era 1981 2003 eBook

Author : Karminder Singh Dhillon
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789971693992

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Summary: "Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is often seen as the sole author of the country's foreign policy. Malaysian Foreign Policy in the Mahathir Era shows that while Mahathir's personality, leadership style, political ideology and brand of nationalism unquestionably had a deep impact, so too did domestic issues and external forces associated with globalization. The book examines seven major foreign policy initiatives of the Mahathir period: Buy British Last, Anti-Commonwealth, Look East, Third World Spokesmanship, Regional Engagement, Islamic Posturing and Commercial and Developmental Diplomacy. In discussing these topics, the author explains the significance for foreign policy of communal concerns, the regime's need to maintain its own authority in the face of political and social initiatives (some rooted in Islam), and its desire to achieve national development. He also discusses external pressures, including Japan's regional designs, Singapore's defense posture and the growing importance of China for the region. The approach breaks away from the elitist decision making styles and single factor models usually employed to explain the foreign policy of developing nations, and establishes a direct link between domestic politics and foreign policy during the period studied, suggesting that the latter was truly an extension of the former."--Publisher description.

Author : Johan Saravanamuttu
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 981427979X

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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 been in the making in foreign policy practice being particularly evident since the Mahathir years. Employing a critical-constructivist approach throughout the study, the author posits that foreign policy should be appreciated as outcomes of socio-political-economic processes embedded within a Malaysian political culture. In terms of broad policy orientations, Malaysian foreign policy over five decades has navigated over the terrains of neutralism, regionalism, globalization and Islamism. However, the critical engagement of civil society in foreign policy construction remains a formidable challenge.

Author : Azhari Karim
Publisher : Penerbit USM
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9674618163

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This book focuses on new approaches in understanding the changing context of foreign policy decision-making in the country, historically and for the future. From the traditional mode of the domestic, external and personality traits of the respective prime ministers and their governments over the years, and the nature of their responses to keep up with the changes and to maintain continuity woth the past, all have a big influence ont their decisions. In the four case studies presented, the factors of political continuity managed by the leadership and those that emphasise history, decision-making, key issues, and big-picture and paradigmatic analysis, are considered together with the DIY foreign policy of Prime Minister Najib Razak, and the change in continuity foreign policy framework of Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and the short-lived Pakatan Harapan government. The book closes with a look at the future of diplomacy in the world and the region amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the political uncertainties in the present government in the country.

Author : Mohd Yusof Ahmad
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Malaysia
ISBN :

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To test the validity of these assumptions, the study uses the comprehensive approach to examine the four key pillars of Malaysia's foreign policy behavior between 1981-1986 namely, the dimensions of defence and security, political-diplomatic, international trade and economics and Malaysia's Islamic diplomacy. Here behavior in the four selected issue-areas of Anglo-Malaysian relations, ties with the Commonwealth, the "Look-East" diplomacy and the Antarctica initiative were similarly analysed for the same purpose