Malaysia’s China policy in the post-Mahathir era : a neoclassical realist explanation

• Main Author: Kuik, Cheng-Chwee
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79892; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9117
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Malaysia’s China policy in the post-Cold War era – as an instance of a smaller state’s strategy toward a proximate and rising great power – has been characterized by three patterns. First, there was a shift from hostility and guarded rapprochement during the Cold War to cordiality and maturing partn...