Paradoxes of Mahathirism

Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia since 1981, is one of Asia's most successful politicians. In a career spanning half a century, he has been an occasional writer on Malay affairs, a doctor cum parliamentarian, a Malay nationalist who has emerged as a Third World spokesman and a practitioner of Islamic modernism. This text provides a full-length scholarly examination of the enigma of Mahathir.