The greatest success of Malaysian Islamist political party PAS is that it has managed to shift the centre of political debate to religion without being in power. Like Pakistan’s Jama’at-e Islami (with no more than nine seats in the national legislative), said political scientist and researcher on Political Islam Dr. Farish A. Noor, Islamist political [...]
In this book, the author rejects the notion that he 1997-98 Asian economic crisis was further evidence that capitalism can only develop within liberal social and political institutions, and that new technology undermines authoritarian control. Instead, Rodan argues that in Singapore and Malaysia, external pressures for transparency reform were being met without serious compromise to [...]
This work by a good friend of the FNF, Abdul Rahman Embong, provides an important study of the new middle class in Malaysia. The book examines the emergence and role of the new Malay middle class in the context of democratization and the development of civil society in the country. An insightful comparative analysis is [...]
This volume concerns itself with democratic politics in Malaysia. It focuses on the recovery of women’s voices in everyday politics, along with other specific areas and issues of democratic practices, including the limits to democratic administration. Importantly the book contains discussions of various discourses concerning democratic politics, including the political elite’s interpretations of “Asian values” [...]
Present an in-depth examination of anti-authoritarian forces in contemporary Indonesia and Malaysia. In general, the volume attempts to respond to the impasse of the so-called “transition from authoritarian to democracy” paradigm and adopts broader senses of politics, power, and authoritarianism, challenging our familiar understanding of gender, Islam, ethnicity, and social classes. The central theme focuses [...]
Fareed Zakaria 2001 SUMMARY: Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, has come up with a very relevant book with regards to today’s international affairs. This work makes an important observation concerning how although democratic societies are flourishing within the international system, the concept and indeed practice of liberalism has relatively not. The key point is [...]
ABSTRACT: This original contribution to the globalization debate uses Malaysia as reference point. Following the trauma of the late 1990s – environmental abuses in Southeast Asia, transnational turmoil in currency trading, the meltdown of stock markets and stark political consequences – a team of authors seek to understand how, and to what extent, communities can [...]
In this volume, the author addresses five central issues: secular nationalism, Islam, citizenship, democracy and human rights, while arguing that modernization and development have led to tensions in contemporary Malaysia. Importantly, the author discusses such themes in the context of the historical and political dynamics underlying nearly 20 years of authoritarian rule in that country. [...]
This book discusses a number of important issues in contemporary Malaysia such as political developments, governance, the impact of ethnicity, patronage, as well as the reform movement. It also looks into business enterprise in Malaysia, in particular by exploring how control of ‘corporate Malaysia’ is interlinked with political developments. Issues such as Islamization, the nature [...]
In this refreshing approach to political Islam, Dr. Peter Mandaville analyses Islam as a form of ‘travelling theory’ in the context of contemporary global transformations such as diasporic communities, transnational social movements, global cities and information technologies. Mandaville examines how in this sense, ‘globalization’ is manifested as a lived experience through a discussion of debates [...]
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