Title : New World Hegemony in the Malay World

Author: Geoffrey C. Gunn

Publisher: The Red Sea Press, 2000

ISBN 156902135X

Condition: Paperback. New.

PRICE : SG $28

Synopsis

(from back cover)

.....So, in taking the "Malay world" or the world of the Malay speaking countries of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam as paradigmatic of debates of democracy versus authoritarianism in the postcolonial world, this book also adumbrates upon the East Timor case as emblematic of the universal question of social justice and human rights which engage all human beings. Complex fractured societies at the juncture of three imperialisms, Dutch, British, and Portuguese, the major ecological, political and economic crises of the late twentieth century reminds us that the boundaries of colonialism and the writ of dictators are nowhere immutable when it comes to questions of freedom, autonomy and self-determination.