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Malaysia and the developing world : the Asian Tiger on the Cinnamon Road /
As Malaysia's economy grows and flourishes, strong new links are being forged with other developing countries in the region and beyond. This book traces the ways in which age-old organizational, political, religious and trade networks between Nusantara, the Malay World, and Central Asia, East A...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge Malaysian studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Malaysia and the Developing World: The Asian Tiger on the Cinnamon Road; Copyright; Contents; The author; 1 Introduction: Trends, visions and concepts in the developing world between the Middle East, the Silk Road and the Lands beyond the Winds; 2 New theoretical meanings?: Transnationalism, networks and the semi-authoritarian state; A world without meaning; Culture matters; Authoritarianism and development; Asian globalization: networking authoritarianism works; Bound together, networking power; Alternative modernities; The Vanishing Hitchhiker
- in the spectre of legends.
- 3 Sufis, traders, seafarers: Reconsidering nineteenth-century networks between Nusantara, East Africa and the Arab PeninsulaTravelling saints: alternative cosmopolitan networks of knowledge; Imperial cultural markers; Merchant networks and the impact of colonization: through trade to control; History repeats itself: alternative knowledge, authoritarianism and trade along the shores of the Indian Ocean; 4 Towards the middle path?: The tectonic shifts in the Islamic world; Early rumblings for change: the Asia Crisis, Malaysian reformasi and the overthrow of Suharto.
- A new Asian century, 2000-11? Regional economic and foreign policy challengesThe catalysis in 2011: the Arab revolution and its Southeast Asian underpinnings; Towards the middle path: new overtures in Islamic developmental modernity, Malaysia and Turkey; Policy and strategic implications: Asia and the West, beyond 2012; 5 The Asian Tiger on the Nile: Knowledge transfer, modernization and bilateral linkages between the Middle East and Southeast Asia; The periphery of the Lands beyond the Winds; The myth of a one-way transfer of knowledge in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- The businessman-politician and his beneficiaries: linkages of the private sectorFrying your own halal sausage: the emerging Islamic food industry; Generating Islamic professionalism: linkages of Islamic banking; Bilateral relations: reinventing Southeast Asia on the Arab map; The periphery moves to centre stage; 6 Race, patronage and the hybrid authoritarian state: Guyana and Malaysia revisited; Introduction; Racial politics, inequality and class struggle in the colonial state; The origins of post-colonial hybrid authoritarianism: race-based politics in a multiracial society, 1968-81.
- Labour-Islam: legalizing the authoritarian stateRegime survival: hybrid authoritarianism and state networks; Interlocked patronage networks and new authoritarianism (1991-2011); 7 The failure to create a networked Islamic space: Malaysia and Central Asia in the 1990s; Snow Leopard and Asian Tiger; Malaysia, Asia Pacific and the Soviet Union during the Cold War: cautious advances; The illusion of shared Asian identities: Malaysia and the Central Asian states after 1990; Exploring the basics: forging bilateral relations in the early 1990s; The role of Russia.