Kleptocracy and Malaysia’s Foreign Policy Change Toward China A Political-Administrative Relations Account
KLEPTOCRACY AND MALAYSIA’S FOREIGN POLICY CHANGE TOWARD CHINA A POLITICAL-ADMINISTRATIVE RELATIONS ACCOUNT
ISBN 978-629-486-373-6
MYR35.00
Book Details聽
Author/Editor: Abdul Muein Abadi
Pages: 126
Year of Publication: 2024
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Malaysia鈥檚 foreign policy change toward China amid Najib Razak鈥檚 kleptocracy case raises a broader theoretical question: How is the effect of kleptocracy on foreign policy change mediated by the political-administrative relationship? In the case of Malaysia鈥檚 foreign economic policy, despite the presence of high-caliber bureaucrats, they were unable to stop the over-inflated loans from being signed, as well as the fire-sale of Malaysia鈥檚 Edra Energy to China. Najib Razak not only managed to exclude those bureaucrats, he even included his allies to propose those loans from China, which ended up being used to bail out the 1MDB debt. This was also the case in Malaysia鈥檚 foreign defense policy changes. Despite the Navy鈥檚 plan to build the LMSs domestically, the kleptocrats purchased them from China instead. Accordingly, this book provides an insight into the dynamics of foreign policy-making in the case of kleptocracy that can be reflected on by other smaller powers around the globe, in the face of the US鈥揅hina rivalry in the 21st century and beyond.
BISAC Subject Code(s): POL011000, POL011010
Category: International relations聽
