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Malaysia Dissolves Parliament, Calls for Election

October 10, 2022 abdillah Leave a comment

The Malaysian Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri, has just announced the dissolution of the country’s parliament, paving the way for the country’s 15th General Election. The move was much anticipated following weeks of speculation. In his address to the nation, the Prime Minister mentioned that the “people’s mandate is a powerful

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Transnationalism and Chinese Diaspora’s struggle for identity in British Malaya

August 6, 2022 abdillah Leave a comment

Malayan Chinese muted response to the Malayan Union proposal in 1946 which promised common citizenship rights and equal opportunity to non-Malays have not been sufficiently explained by existing literature. This article suggests that such muted response is due to the presence of Chinese transnationalism that diluted and diverted the community’s

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Issues in Malaysia’s public policy and administration: An Institutional Analysis

April 27, 2022 abdillah Leave a comment

How does institutional quality dictate a bureaucracy’s ability to change? Should we see change as transformational? Or should we see change as incremental, one that takes place in small steps over time? Are institutional legacies great impediments to change? This is a newly released book that touches on various issues

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India mulls over Indo-Pacific Security Arrangement

September 29, 2021 abdillah Leave a comment

The recent tiff between France and Australia over the latter’s buying of nuclear powered submarines has created diplomatic tension. Australia’s about turn – choosing of the US nuclear powered submarines against the French-made submarines – has soured relations between France, UK and the US with the French accusing its NATO

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9/11 and the impact lives on…

September 11, 2021 abdillah Leave a comment

The bombings of four key US installations on September 11, 2001, by four commercial planes, are still etched in most minds. Twenty years ago, the world watched the event unfold, real time, with awe and shock as the two towers of World Trade Centre collapsed minutes after the second plane

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The Myanmar Crisis and ASEAN’s role

June 3, 2021 abdillah Leave a comment

This is a recent article I wrote for Critical Asian Studies. In the article I raise the point that any intervention in Myanmar should take careful note of the complexities of Myanmar’s political economy and the country’s institutional quality where democratic institutions are still at a nascent stage. ASEAN, specifically,

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Malaysia’s dilemma and ongoing battle for political change

May 25, 2021 abdillah Leave a comment

This is an article I wrote in 2016, before Malaysia’s eventful May 2018 election that saw the Barisan Nasional (BN) losing control of the government and the first time that Malaysia saw a new coalition government, the Pakatan Harapan (PH) taking control. At the time the PH government included many

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Is Capitalism and Democracy incompatible?

January 4, 2021 abdillah Leave a comment

Unlike common belief, there is always the tug of war between capitalism and democracy. Some are suggesting that rampant capitalism as we see now is putting democracy under threat. The effects iof capitalism is evident from widening rich-poor divide, the rule of markets over state’s policy and the evident rise

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A Covidian-age budget: Malaysia to announce its budget for 2021

October 29, 2020 abdillah Leave a comment

Malaysia is set to announce its budget for 2021 this coming 6 November. How will the Malaysian budget look like? How different will this budget be compared to the pre-covid 19 budget statements. One certainty is that Malaysia’s budget deficit is set to breach its self-imposed limit of 5.5% of

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Change: Why is it so difficult?

September 18, 2020 abdillah Leave a comment

Habit is difficult to break, they say, because if you take the H there is still “a bit”. Even if you take away the “a” there is still the “bit”. And even if you remove the “b” there is still “it.” There is some truth about habit and change. Why

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  • Malaysia Dissolves Parliament, Calls for Election
  • Transnationalism and Chinese Diaspora’s struggle for identity in British Malaya
  • Issues in Malaysia’s public policy and administration: An Institutional Analysis
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  • 9/11 and the impact lives on…

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