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BOOKS

Selected books by AEI academics.

Apr 5, 2024

The New Normal and Its Impact on Society: Perspectives from ASEAN and the European Union

  • Nurliana Kamaruddin, Aida Idris, Kevin Fernandez

This book focuses on the socio-cultural changes and issues experienced in ASEAN and the European Union in the post-pandemic world. In doing so, chapters discuss the social impact of specific themes such as changing work ethics, migration, and cyber security, which have shifted the cultural and economic landscapes of Southeast Asia and Europe.

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Mar 27, 2023

Digitalization and Development: Ecosystem for Promoting IR 4.0 Technologies in Malaysia

  • Rajah Rasiah, Low Wah Yun, Nurliana Kamaruddin

This book examines the diffusion of digitalization and Industry 4.0 technologies in Malaysia by focusing on the ecosystem critical for its expansion. The chapters examine the digital proliferation in major sectors of agriculture, manufacturing, e-commerce and services, as well as the intermediary organizations essential for the orderly performance of socioeconomic agents.

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April 13, 2022

Financing Sustainability Critical Issues with East Asian Experiences

  • Rajah Rasiah, Gopi Krishnan & Azleen Osman Rani

This book brings together chapters that deal with selected sustainability issues, both conceptual issues, as well as empirical experiences that can serve as paths countries could adapt and adopt in their quest to further the financing of sustainability.

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April 7, 2022

Malaysia's Leap Into the Future

  • Rajah Rasiah, Kamal Salih, Cheong Kee Cheok

This book presents the future development of Malaysia. It puts together building blocks to achieve a better future. These blocks are poverty and income inequality, population, demography and urbanization, growth and technological progress, education, human capital and skills, finance, labor, the environment, and health care.

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June 3, 2021

Contesting Malaysia's Integration into the World Economy

  • Rajah Rasiah, Azirah Hashim & Jatswan S. Sidhu

Through celebrating the work of Shahril Talib Robert, the authors in this volume remind us of a deeper economic and political heritage that is often lost in the rubble of confusing national politics. All who care for Malaysia will find the studies here an uplifting affirmation of the value of open-minded and dedicated scholarship.

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May 24, 2021

Getting Started with Research: A Guide to Research Methodology

  • Jens Allwood, Elisabeth Ahlsén, Azirah Hashim

This handbook presents and examines differing types of research methodology as well as critical thinking, academic writing, and oral presentation. It also discusses research and publication ethics, multi- and interdisciplinary research, research in relation to society, and the use of ICT in research, among other subjects.

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May 10, 2021

Contemporary Issues in ASEAN-EU Socio-Cultural Cooperation

  • Sameer Kumar, Nurliana Kamaruddin & Azirah Hashim

This book presents nine conference proceedings articles selected from a series of webinars on EU and ASEAN Socio-cultural Cooperation held between July and December 2020. E-book is available.

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June 16, 2021

Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainable Development

  • Rajah Rasiah, Fatimah Kari, Yuri Sadoi, Nazia Mintz-Habib

This book focuses on different aspects of initiatives—to check pollution and to reduce consumption of fossil fuels—by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

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June 16, 2021

Governing Corporate Tax Management: The Role of State Ownership, Institutions and Markets in China

  • Chen Zhang, Rajah Rasiah, Kee Cheok Cheong

This book focuses on corporate sector development in the context of transition economies, such as China. In doing so, the book uses quantitative methods to test several hypotheses that are salient to the Chinese economic situation.

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June 16, 2021

From Free Port to Modern Economy: Economic Development and Social Change in Penang, 1969 to 1990

  • Chet Singh, Rajah Rasiah, Yee Tuan Wong

The 1950s saw Lim Chong Eu taking an increasingly central role in Malayan politics, moving from the exhilarating preparation for independence to him losing political influence by the end of the decade. The following decade saw him trying to revive his political fortunes, and finally succeeding at the ballot box in 1969.

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June 15, 2021

Governing Enterprises in China: Corporate Boards, Ownership and Markets

  • Zhang Cheng, Rajah Rasiah, Kee Cheok Cheong

This book examines the nature of the marketization of corporate boards following the introduction of the split share reform, corporate board and shareholder relations, corporate performance, and risk-taking conduct in China.The chapters cover topics such as determinants of corporate board size and independence, corporate risk-taking conduct under different controlling shareholder types.

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June 15, 2021

Driving Development: Revisiting Razak's Role in Malaysia's Economic Progress

  • Rajah Rasiah, Kamal Salih

This book breaks ground by assessing the initiatives by, and consequences of the policies launched and implemented by the Abdul Razak administration since 1970. In doing so, it compares the direction subsequent administrations took, and draws lessons for other latecomer countries.

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April 28, 2021

Asia and Europe in the 21st Century: New Anxieties, New Opportunities

  • Rahul Mishra, Azirah Hashim & Anthony Milner

This book presents key implications of the changing politico-security dynamics in the two regions from the perspectives of both Asian and European scholars and theoretical traditions. A must-read for scholars of International Relations with a focus on relations between Asia and Europe.

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June 20, 2019

ASEAN Post-50: Emerging Issues and Challenges

  • Aida Idris & Nurliana Kamaruddin

This collection considers some of the contemporary issues and challenges faced by ASEAN in its journey towards more cohesive and dynamic regional integration. Among the topics explored are ASEAN’s evolving partnerships with its key strategic partners including China and the United States on economic policies and strategies, educational systems and frameworks, migration and environmental threats.

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May 30, 2019

Communicating with Asia: The Future of English as a Global Language

  • Gerhard Leitner, Azirah Hashim & Hans-Georg Wolf

Communicating with Asia brings together an international team of leading researchers to discuss South, South-East, East and Central Asia, and explore Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi-Urdu, Malay, and Russian as major languages.

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May 24, 2019

ASEAN-EU Dialogue 2018: Regional and Inter-Regional Economic Cooperation

  • Fumitaka Furuoka, Aida Idris, Beatrice Lim & Rostika Petrus Boroh

This volume comprises papers presented at the ASEAN-EU dialogue 2018, on Regional and Inter-regional Economic Cooperation: Identifying Priorities for ASEAN and the EU. The dialogue is one of the key activities undertaken by the Asia-Europe Institute of the University of Malaya in the context of its recognition by the EU as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCoE) for the period 2017 to 2020.

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May 16, 2019

Malaysian Perspectives on ASEAN Regionalism

  • Azirah Hashim & Anthony Milner

This essay collection examines a range of Malaysian perspectives on regional institutions and regional community building. It identifies Malaysian aspirations and anxieties, as well as elements of a particular Malaysian regionalist style. It notes too the recurring problem of how to balance regional against more narrowly national objectives.

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March 29, 2019

India's Eastward Engagement: From Antiquity to Act East Policy

  • S.D. Muni & Rahul Mishra

This book presents India's engagement with its extended eastern neighbours from ancient times to the present. It argues that this engagement has been long rooted in India's geographical location, its civilizational evolution and historical transformations.

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Dec 10, 2017

EU-ASEAN Relations: Perspectives from Malaysia

  • Asia-Europe Institute

With this booklet, the Asia-Europe Institute (AEI) aims to provide a well structured academic overview of the most important issues of EU-ASEAN relations. We are thankful for the financial support given by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Malaysia, whom are sponsors of this publication.

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Jan 20, 2017

Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts

  • Sultan Nazrin Shah

The hardcover book charts the course of Malaya’s commodity-dependent economy during the first 40 years of the 20th century under British colonial control, contrasting that course with the economic growth and development in contemporary Malaysia.

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Jan 9, 2017

Will ASEAN Continue to be the Cornerstone of Malaysian Foreign Policy: The “Community-building” Priority

  • Anthony Milner

This monograph is an edited version of the Tun Hussein Onn Chair in International Studies Lecture 2015.

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Last Update: 05/04/2024