Controlled Chaos: Essays on Malaysia's New Politics Beyond Mahathirism and the Multimedia Super Corridor

by Azly Rahman

Through this collection of essays on Malaysia’s ‘new politics’, Azly Rahman once again provides a superb insight into contemporary Malaysian political narratives. Throughout this collection of articles, Azly has continually posed a series of questions to the reader to think critically about issues concerning Obama-ism, Hudud, censorship and the institutionalization of Islam in an effort to break through the current shallow paradigms. Through this, Azly seeks the reader to see something better for Malaysia, beyond the current intellectual malaise the country’s opinion leaders have pushed the nation into.

191 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Dr. Azly Rahman is an educator, academic, an international columnist, head of Social Studies department, and author of ten books, namely: Multiethnic Malaysia: Past, Present, Future (2009), Thesis on Cyberjaya: Hegemony and Utopianism in a Southeast Asian State (2012), The Allah Controversy and Other Essays on Malaysian Hypermodernity (2013), Dark Spring: Essays on the Ideological Roots of Malaysia's General Elections-13 (2013), Kalimah Allah Milik Siapa?: Renungan dan Nukilan Tentang Malaysia di Era Pancaroba (2014), Controlled Chaos: Essays on Mahathirism, Multimedia Super Corridor and Malaysia's 'New Politics' (2014), One Malaysia under God, Bipolar (2015), and From High Hopes to Shattered Dreams: Second Mahathirist Revolution (2020).

Born in Singapore, he grew up in a Malay village in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

He holds a doctorate in International Education Development from Columbia University in the City of New York, and Master's degrees in six areas: education, international affairs, peace studies communication, fiction, and non-fiction writing.

He is an international columnist for opinion portals in Malaysia, Greece&Finland, and the USA. He has written more than 400 analyses on Malaysian society, culture, politics, and international topics in Education, American Studies, Philosophy, and Anthropology.

He is a member of the Columbia University chapter of the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education and the Ohio Chapter of International Understanding Honor Society. He currently teaches courses in Global Politics, World History, Psychology, Economics, Cross-Cultural Studies, and Sustainability, in the United States. Twitter @azlyrahman.