Researchers
KHOO Boo Teik
Research Field:
Politics of Malaysia, Southeast Asia, ethnicity, Islam and the judiciary; ideology and political biography; comparative studies in industrialization and development.
Education / Research Experience
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Education:
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| BA (Rochester), 1977 | |
| MCP (MIT), 1979 | |
| PhD (Flinders), 1995 | |
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Professional Career:
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| Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, Mar 2000 – Apr 2009 | |
| Deputy Dean (Graduate Studies & Research), School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Mar 2001 – Mar 2003 | |
| Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Dec 2005 – Apr 2006 | |
| Visiting Fellow, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, May 1999 – Jan 2000 | |
| Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, May 1994 to Apr 1999 | |
| Lecturer, Department of Public Policy & Administration, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam , Jun 1987 – Feb 1993 | |
| Senior Researcher, Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec 1986 to Apr 1987 | |
Major Works
Selected Publications
- Paradoxes of Mahathirism: An Intellectual Biography of Mahathir Mohamad, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995; 2nd and 3rd impressions, 1995; 4th impression, 1996; 5th impression, 2001
- Beyond Mahathir: Malaysian Politics and its Discontents,, London and New York: Zed Books, 2003. Also published in Chinese as Chaoyue Mahadi (translated by Ong Kok Chung et al), Kuala Lumpur, Prometheus Enterprise, 2004
- Democracy in Malaysia: Discourses and Practices, Richmond: Curzon Press, 2002 (Co-editor: Francis Loh Kok Wah)
- Managing Ethnic Tensions in Post-Crisis Malaysia and Indonesia: Lessons from the New Economic Policy? Geneva, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Identities, Conflict and Cohesion Programme Paper No. 6, August 2004
- Searching for Islam in Malaysian Politics: Confluences, Divisions and Governance, Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong, Southeast Asian Research Centre, Working Paper Series No. 72, September 2004
- Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance in the Public Sector: Malaysian Experiences, Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Democracy, Governance and Human Rights Programme Paper No. 20, December 2005
- ‘The Value(s) of a Miracle: Malaysian and Singaporean Elite Constructions of Asia’, Asian Studies Review, 23, 2 (June 1999): 181–92
- ‘Between Law and Politics: The Malaysian Judiciary since 1957’, in Kanishka Jayasuriya (ed.), Law, Capitalism and Power in East Asia, London: Routledge, 1999, pp. 248–79
- ‘Economic Nationalism and its Discontents: Malaysian Political Economy After July 1997’, in Richard Robison, Kanishka Jayasuriya, Mark Beeson and Hyuk Rae Kim (eds), Politics and Markets in the Wake of the Asian Crisis, London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 212-37
- ‘The Malaysian General Election of 1999’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 35, 2 (July 2000): 305–12
- ‘Writing Reformasi’, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, Issue 1, Power and Politics, March 2002
- ‘Mahathirism After the Asian Crisis and Beyond Mahathir’, in Takashi Shiraishi and Patricio N. Abinales (eds), After the Crisis: Hegemony, Technocracy, and Governance in Southeast Asia, Kyoto Area Studies on Asia Volume 11, Kyoto: Kyoto University Press and Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2005, pp. 156–78
- ‘Islamic opposition in Malaysia: political idiom, moral economy and religious governance’, in Vedi Hadiz (ed.), Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia, London, Routledge, 2006, pp. 139–55
- ‘Malaysia: Balancing Development and Power’, in Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison and Richard Robison (eds), The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Markets, Power and Contestation, 3rd revised edition, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 170–96
