Awakening the Abdullah Badawi years in Malaysia
Tun Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi served as Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009. Better known as Pak Lah, he came in office with a huge mandate. In the 2004 General Elections, the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) won its best performance since 1969. Five years later in the 2008 GE, the BN won...
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Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD)
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Abdullah Badawi and Transformasi
- 1. 'Doing the invisible': a conversation with Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi / Tun Abdulllah Badawi
- 2. The discursive construction of the image of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi as the 'Sleeping PM' / Farish A. Noor
- 3. Managing Mahathir's mess / Ooi Kee Beng
- 4. The Abdullah Badawi premiership: interlude and end-game? / Clive Kessler
- 5. 'Shadow Mahathir': interview with Dato Seri Dr Mohamad Khir bin Toyo / Mohamed Khir Toyo
- 6. 'Nice guys finish last - sometimes': interview with Dato' Mohd Zaid Ibrahim / Zaid Ibrahim
- Domestik Arenas of Transformation
- 7. 'Before Malaysia's time': an interview with Dato Seri Abdul Azim Zabidi / Abdul Azim Zabidi
- 8. The coming of age of the reformasi generation / Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad
- 9. Failure to manage fear: Abdullah and the Malays / Wan Hamidi Hamid
- 'A special relationship': PAS and Abdullah Badawi / Zulkifli Sulong
- 11. It had to happen: the Chinese backlash in the 2008 General Elections / James U.H. Chin
- 12. Engaging 'many' Malaysian Chinese / Rita Sim
- 13. The Indian dilemma: sucked up & spat up / K. Kabilan
- 14. Every Indian is burning inside / Andrew Willford
- 15. Sabah's rise to national prominence and deepening UMNO dominance / Arnold Puyok
- 16. Sarawak's political dynamics / Mohd. Faisal Syam Abdol Hazis
- 17. Great expectations, unrealised dreams: human rights and Abdullah Badawi / Anil Netto
- 18. Enabling and empowering Malaysians / Bridget Welsh
- 19. 'An opposition's transformation': interview with Liew Chin Tong / Liew Chin Tong
- 20. The quiet PM and a generation's coming of age / Chua Sue-Ann
- 21. Abdullah Badawi's quiet revolution in political institutions / Bridget Welsh
- 22. Corruption unplugged under Abdullah / William Case
- 23. Islam Hadhari : making moderate, modern Muslims
- 24. 'The dream that wasn't': ethnic relations under Abdullah / Khaw Veon Szu
- 25. 'An accidental footnote': Pak Lah's administration and the judiciary
- 26. Pak Lah: friend or foe of new media? / Oon Yeoh
- 27. Promises, promises - failed justice / Maria Chin Abdullah
- 28. Malaysian culture under Abdullah / Jason Tan
- Socio-Economic Dynamics and Obstacles
- 29. Abdullah Badawi's economic policies: between promise and delivery / Ramesh Chander
- 30. Promoting entrepreneurial SME's: policies, institutions and incentives / Edmund Terence Gomez
- 31. Abdullah Badawi, the NECC and the corporate equity issue: view from a personal connection / Lim Teck Ghee
- 32. Challenges amidst diversity: Malaysian Chinese business under the Abdullah Badawi administration / Lee Kam Hing
- 33. Abdullah's socio-economy agenda: reflections on the relevance & impact on the the Indian community / Denison Jayasooria
- Foreign Policy and Outreach
- 34. Malaysian foreign relations and diplomacy under Abdullah Badawi / Khadijah Khalid
- 35. Mending fences: Malaysia-Singapore relations during the Abdullah Badawi administration / Joseph Chin Yong Liow
- 36. Smiles and storms : Abdullah Badawi's navigation of US waters / Bridget Welsh
- 37. Malaysia's China policy under Abdullah: more continuity than change? / Kuik Cheng-Chwee