Rohingya refugee crisis : testing Malaysia’s ASEAN chairmanship

• Main Author: Han, David Guo Xiong
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104939; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/26160
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Rohingya refugee crisis is a test of Malaysia’s chairmanship of ASEAN. Kuala Lumpur’s response is an attempt to balance its foreign policy commitment to ASEAN and allay domestic concerns over the Rohingya humanitarian problem.