Malaysia’s troubled state
By Meredith Weiss
October 2015 FEATURE
Malaysia is currently in crisis. The ringgit seems to be on an inexorable downhill slide, ethnic tensions have deteriorated from uncomfortable simmer to open flame, and both the government and opposition coalitions are unravelling. Malaysian politics and society have hit rough patches before; the dominant Umno fractures about once a decade, opposition parties fall in and out of love like teenagers, and cyclical economic downturns summon forth the usual host of scapegoats and bogeys. But this round is different: the...
Meredith Weiss
is associate professor of Political Science at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York.
