Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times

Mahathir Mohamad turned Malaysia into one of the developing world's most successful economies. He adopted pragmatic economic policies alongside repressive political measures and showed that Islam was compatible with representative government and modernization. He emerged as a Third World champion and Islamic spokesman by standing up to the West.

Author: B. Wain
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/30/2009
Pages: 363
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780230238732

About the Author
BARRY WAIN, a former editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal, was Writer-in-Residence at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. An Australian journalist who lived in Asia for 37 years, he was author of The Refused, an account of the refugee outflow from Indochina after the Vietnam War.