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In addition to offering a comprehensive overview and fair insight over more than twenty five years into the relations between two South Middle Powers, namely South Africa and Malaysia, this book also discusses them within their respective regional structures and evaluates their respective diplomatic and commercial connections. It also explores issues that have generally be neglected by International Relations specialists and, in this regard, it gives attention to cultural contacts that bring to the fore the critical role of non-state actors in international affairs. Since the ideas espoused by South Africa and Malaysia’s political leaders are rooted in their specific national and broad regional philosophies, the study also unpacks the notions of the ’African ways’ vis-à-vis the ‘Asian ways’ in maintaining and sustaining state-to-state relations within the two regions. This book, which uses Critical Theory as an appropriate framework that takes full cognisance of various developments in International Relations, will be of interest to scholars and researchers in both the Social Sciences and the Humanities.
About the author
Muhammed Haron is a Full Professor in Religious Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Botswana and an Associate Researcher at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He obtained a Doctorandus Degree in Semitic Studies from the Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam, before finishing his doctorate in International Relations at Rhodes University, South Africa. He is as an executive member of the Centre for Contemporary Islam at the University of Cape Town and the Editor-in-Chief of the online Research Africa Reviews. His publications include The Dynamics of Christian-Muslim Relations (2006), Going Forward: South African-Malaysia Relations (2008), South Africa’s Muslims: Annotated Bibliography (1997) First Steps in Arabic Grammar (2007), Islamic Civilization in Southern Africa (2009), and Muslim Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa (2016), among others.
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