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Prime Minister Badawi's policies in 2006 were accompanied by an uninvited yet hardly ignorable critique, voiced by none other than his predecessor, Mahathir Mohamad. Apart from this controversy, the provisions of the Ninth Malaysia Plan, inter-ethnic relations, and price hikes for fuel occupied minds and media.

Privatizing Malaysia: Rents, Rhetoric, Realities edited by K. S. Jomo.

"Konfrontasi", so wird die Ära der Konfrontation Indonesiens gegen Malaysia 1963 bis 1966, genannt. Der "Nusantara" Traum hingegen umschreibt die Vision einer Vereinigung des malaiischen Archipels zu einem großen Reich, wie in den vorkolonialen Zeiten. Vor 20 Jahren endete der militärische Teil dieser Konfrontation.

'Income Inequality and Poverty in Malaysia' by Shireen Mardziah Hashim is reviewed.

Malaysia, home to some 20 million Muslims, is often held up as a model of a pro-Western Islamic nation. The government of Malaysia, in search of Western investment, does its best to perpetuate this view. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the growing role of Islam in the last quarter century of Malaysian politics

Political demands of ethnically mobilized constituencies; response of Prime Minister Mahathir.

'Democracy in Malaysia: Discourses and Practice' edited by Francis Loh Kok Wah and Khoo Boo Teik is reviewed.