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International Relations of the Asia-Pacific Advance Access originally published online on October 23, 2008
International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 2009 9(1):107-130; doi:10.1093/irap/lcn022
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This article appears in the following International Relations of the Asia-Pacific issue: SPECIAL ISSUE: Teaching international relations in Southeast Asia [View the issue table of contents]

International relations in Malaysia: theories, history, memory, perception, and context

K.S. Balakrishnan

Department of International and Strategic Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The article makes a preliminary survey of the teaching of international relations (IR) in Malaysia. It starts by describing the origins of the field, and the emergence of an IR epistemic community joining both academia and government. This account is necessarily derived from the experiences of the four most established Malaysian universities distinguished by length of existence and official favor. Subsequently, the survey would describe course content and influences going into their design. The penultimate sections would attempt to place the evolution of Malaysian IR teaching within a historical context. This survey nonetheless concludes that nationalist aspirations continue to remain a secondary influence when compared with intellectual dependence upon the West in the design of IR education in Malaysia.

Received for publication August 28, 2008. Accepted for publication October 2, 2008.


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