Joseph Chinyong Liow
Biographic Data
| ID | 234547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Chinyong Liow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph Chinyong |
| FAMILY NAME | Liow |
| SIGNATURE | LIOW J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1803-4749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Understanding America’s strategic drift in the Indo-Pacific
Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Southeast Asia
The past three decades since the end of the Cold War have been a time of remarkable change for Southeast Asia. Long seen as an arena for superpower rivalry, Southeast Asia is increasingly coming into its own by locating itself at the forefront of regional integration initiatives that involve not only the states of the region, but major external powers such as the United States, China, India, Japan, and Australia. Extensively updated and revised i…
Islam and Political Power in Indonesia and Malaysia: The Role of Tarbiyah and Dakwah in the Evolution of Islamism
Islamism in Indonesia and Malaysia has undergone a fascinating transformation from social movement roots to mainstream politics. How did this take place, and to what ends? Drawing on social movement theories, this Element explains this transformation by focusing on key Islamic social movements in these two countries. It argues: first, that the popularity and appeal of Islamism in Indonesia and Malaysia cannot be understood without appreciating ho…
Southeast Asian Affairs 2022
Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Southeast Asia
Research Handbook on the Belt and Road Initiative
Malaysia’s Creeping Islamization—and Dimming Prospects for Covenantal Pluralism
For countries with religiously diverse populations that have a record of tense relations with each other, the notion of a covenantal pluralism, if successfully established and entrenched as an organizing principle for society, offers an opportunity to break out of the cycle of mutual mistrust and suspicion. Yet, the reality is that the effectiveness of covenantal pluralism as not just an idea but a framework will depend, among other things, on th…
Strategic Imperatives Behind China’s Belt and Road Initiative
A signature initiative that bears the personal imprimatur of President Xi Jinping, the Belt and Road Initiative has been articulated by the Chinse leadership as a grand narrative. Yet, given the reality that it comprises a series of mostly bilateral developmental initiatives that China has entered into with various countries, can we identify broader strategic intent behind the BRI? This essay attempts to answer this question by exploring the geop…
The Sound of Silence: Nuancing Religiopolitical Legitimacy and Conceptualizing the Appeal of Isis in Malaysia
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 41, Number 1, April 2019
Southeast Asia in 2017: Grappling with Uncertainty
“Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region’s dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is…
Making Jihadis, Waging Jihad: Transnational and Local Dimensions of the Isis Phenomenon in Indonesia and Malaysia
This article examines the ISIS phenomenon in Indonesia and Malaysia. It aims to explain how, where, and why the transnational and local intersect as well as the role of religion, particularly in the ideological narratives and recruitment strategies of local jihadi groups. At the heart of this analysis is the question to what extent Indonesians and Malaysians were lured into joining ISIS as a result of its "universal" ideology and global recruitme…
The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies
Religion and Nationalism in Southeast Asia
Religion and nationalism are two of the most potent and enduring forces that have shaped the modern world. Yet, there has been little systematic study of how these two forces have interacted to provide powerful impetus for mobilization in Southeast Asia, a region where religious identities are as strong as nationalist impulses. At the heart of many religious conflicts in Southeast Asia lies competing conceptions of nation and nationhood, identity…
Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Southeast Asia
Selected Entries ASEAN, Boat People, Brunei Revolt, Buddhism, Communism in South-East Asia, Doi Moi, Fretilin, General Giap, Herzog Affair, Ho Chi Minh, Indochina Wars, Islam, Khmer Rouge, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Manila Pact, Ferdinand Marcos, Mekong Project, Nixon Doctrine, Overseas Chinese, Pathet Lao, Pol Pot, Fidel Ramos, South China Sea, Spratly Islands, President Suharto, Tet Offensive, Tonkin Gulf Incident, Vietnam War, Young Turks, ZOPFAN
The Quest for Regional and Domestic Stability
Southeast Asian Affairs is the only one of its kind: a comprehensive annual review devoted to the international relations, politics, and economies of the region and its nation-states. The collected volumes of Southeast Asian Affairs have become a compendium documenting the dynamic evolution of regional and national developments in Southeast Asia from the end of the 'second' Vietnam War to the alarms and struggles of today. Over the years, the edi…
No Man’s Land: Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia
Signs of the Times: Election Fever, Recurring Themes, and Political Malaise
“Founded in 1974, Southeast Asian Affairs provides, without fear or favour, informed and in-depth annual analyses of this vibrant region and its component countries. It is the only publication which does this and is in its own class without peers. It is a mandatory reference and read for those seriously interested in knowing Southeast Asia.”—Professor A.B. Shamsul, Founding Director, Institute of Ethnic Studies, Universiti Bebangsaan Malaysia.“No…
Malaysia's March 2008 general election: Understanding the new media factor
The Malaysian general elections held on 8 March 2008 proved to be a historic event. For the first time, the political opposition managed to deny the incumbent National Front coalition a two-thirds parliamentary majority. Attempts to explain the opposition coalition's 2008 success have identified new media as a critical factor that turned the tide in the opposition's favour. The purpose of this paper is to better understand the new media factor at…
Muslim Identity, Local Networks, and Transnational Islam in Thailand's Southern Border Provinces
This paper discusses the nature of local permutations of transnational Muslim networks in Thailand's southern Muslim-majority provinces and assesses their impact on creed, custom, and conflict in the region. More specifically, the paper interrogates the agenda and methods of idea and norm-propagation on the part of these agents and networks, and their evolving role, as well as the structures and conduits through which they operate and mobilize. I…
Creating Cadres: Mobilization, Activism and the Youth Wing of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, PAS
Southeast Asia in 2009: A Year Fraught with Challenges
Debating the Conduct and Nature of Malaysian Politics: Communalism and New Media Post-March 2008
The results of Malaysia's general election held on 8 March 2008 was nothing short of monumental. By winning five state legislatures and denying the incumbent governing coalition its hitherto routine two-thirds parliamentary majority, the performance of the opposition, swayed by the contribution of the new media, raised hopes that Malaysian politics had turned a corner. Following the elections, the popular discursive terrain in Malaysia was awash …
Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008
Conspiracy of silence: The insurgency in southern Thailand
Conspiracy of silence: The insurgency in southern Thailand, by Zachary Abuza. Washington, DC: United States Institute for Peace Press, 2009, 172 pp. US$14.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-60127-002-3 Goi
Political Islam in Southeast Asia
Political Islam in Malaysia: Problematising discourse and practice in the Umno–PAS ‘Islamisation race’
The politicisation of Islam has become a key feature of the Malaysian political terrain, and finds dominant expression in the so-called ‘Islamisation race’ between UMNO and PAS. This article analyses the religio-political dialectics and responses that defined the UMNO–PAS rivalry during the 22-year administration of Mahathir Mohamad. It focuses primarily on the contradictions and inconsistencies that have riddled strategies undertaken by UMNO to …
The Security Situation in Southern Thailand: Toward an Understanding of Domestic and International Dimensions
The spat of recent violence in Southern Thailand has drawn international attention once again to the political and security situation in the Malay-Muslim provinces of Thailand's restive Southern region. In this regard, this article suggests that in the search for solutions, the Thai government cannot afford to be pre-occupied with Muslim militancy while ignoring the role of other forces and interest groups, or the sensitivities of the Muslim popu…
Malaysia ́s Illegal Indonesian Migrant Labour Problem: In Search of Solutions
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 25, Number 1, April 2003
The Mahathir administration's war against Islamic militancy: Operational and ideological challenges
Fundamentalism is a behavioural question, a psychology which cannot be fought with armadas, but only with other ideas. King Hassan II When the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail Abraham Maslow This article assesses the Malaysian government's confrontation with Islamic militancy in its domestic political sphere. It suggests that while the operational capacity of the Malaysian state and security forces has successfully…
Making Jihadis, Waging Jihad: Transnational and Local Dimensions of the Isis Phenomenon in Indonesia and Malaysia
This article examines the ISIS phenomenon in Indonesia and Malaysia. It aims to explain how, where, and why the transnational and local intersect as well as the role of religion, particularly in the ideological narratives and recruitment strategies of local jihadi groups. At the heart of this analysis is the question to what extent Indonesians and Malaysians were lured into joining ISIS as a result of its "universal" ideology and global recruitme…
Malaysia's March 2008 general election: Understanding the new media factor
The Malaysian general elections held on 8 March 2008 proved to be a historic event. For the first time, the political opposition managed to deny the incumbent National Front coalition a two-thirds parliamentary majority. Attempts to explain the opposition coalition's 2008 success have identified new media as a critical factor that turned the tide in the opposition's favour. The purpose of this paper is to better understand the new media factor at…
Debating the Conduct and Nature of Malaysian Politics: Communalism and New Media Post-March 2008
The results of Malaysia's general election held on 8 March 2008 was nothing short of monumental. By winning five state legislatures and denying the incumbent governing coalition its hitherto routine two-thirds parliamentary majority, the performance of the opposition, swayed by the contribution of the new media, raised hopes that Malaysian politics had turned a corner. Following the elections, the popular discursive terrain in Malaysia was awash …
Crisis, choice and change: Malaysian electoral politics at the end of the 20thcentury
Muslim Identity, Local Networks, and Transnational Islam in Thailand's Southern Border Provinces
This paper discusses the nature of local permutations of transnational Muslim networks in Thailand's southern Muslim-majority provinces and assesses their impact on creed, custom, and conflict in the region. More specifically, the paper interrogates the agenda and methods of idea and norm-propagation on the part of these agents and networks, and their evolving role, as well as the structures and conduits through which they operate and mobilize. I…
Creating Cadres: Mobilization, Activism and the Youth Wing of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, PAS
Conspiracy of silence: The insurgency in southern Thailand
Conspiracy of silence: The insurgency in southern Thailand, by Zachary Abuza. Washington, DC: United States Institute for Peace Press, 2009, 172 pp. US$14.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-60127-002-3 Goi
Tunku Abdul Rahman and Malaya's Relations with Indonesia, 1957–1960
Despite popular representations of Tunku Abdul Rahman as an avuncular political personality, he was also an astute policy practitioner. This was evident in how he, in pursuit of Malayan interests, calibrated Malaya's foreign policy posture towards Jakarta in a manner that not only displayed little appreciation of Indonesian sensitivities, but also undermined its political interest and status as the major power in Southeast Asia, thus contributing…
Crisis, choice and change: Malaysian electoral politics at the end of the 20thcentury
Malaysia ́s Illegal Indonesian Migrant Labour Problem: In Search of Solutions
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 25, Number 1, April 2003
The Politics of Indonesia-Malaysia Relations: One Kin, Two Nations
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between Indonesia and Malaysia, focusing especially on how the relationship has developed in the last fifty years. It argues that the political relationship between the two countries has been largely defined by rivalry, despite the fact that the processes of national self-determination began by emphasising Indo-Malay fraternity. It shows how the two countries have different, conteste…
Political Islam in Malaysia: Problematising discourse and practice in the Umno–PAS ‘Islamisation race’
The politicisation of Islam has become a key feature of the Malaysian political terrain, and finds dominant expression in the so-called ‘Islamisation race’ between UMNO and PAS. This article analyses the religio-political dialectics and responses that defined the UMNO–PAS rivalry during the 22-year administration of Mahathir Mohamad. It focuses primarily on the contradictions and inconsistencies that have riddled strategies undertaken by UMNO to …
The Security Situation in Southern Thailand: Toward an Understanding of Domestic and International Dimensions
The spat of recent violence in Southern Thailand has drawn international attention once again to the political and security situation in the Malay-Muslim provinces of Thailand's restive Southern region. In this regard, this article suggests that in the search for solutions, the Thai government cannot afford to be pre-occupied with Muslim militancy while ignoring the role of other forces and interest groups, or the sensitivities of the Muslim popu…
The Mahathir administration's war against Islamic militancy: Operational and ideological challenges
Fundamentalism is a behavioural question, a psychology which cannot be fought with armadas, but only with other ideas. King Hassan II When the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail Abraham Maslow This article assesses the Malaysian government's confrontation with Islamic militancy in its domestic political sphere. It suggests that while the operational capacity of the Malaysian state and security forces has successfully…
Tunku Abdul Rahman and Malaya's Relations with Indonesia, 1957–1960
Despite popular representations of Tunku Abdul Rahman as an avuncular political personality, he was also an astute policy practitioner. This was evident in how he, in pursuit of Malayan interests, calibrated Malaya's foreign policy posture towards Jakarta in a manner that not only displayed little appreciation of Indonesian sensitivities, but also undermined its political interest and status as the major power in Southeast Asia, thus contributing…
Internal Conflicts in Southeast Asia: The Nature, Legitimacy, and (Changing) Role of the State
Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008
Conspiracy of silence: The insurgency in southern Thailand
Conspiracy of silence: The insurgency in southern Thailand, by Zachary Abuza. Washington, DC: United States Institute for Peace Press, 2009, 172 pp. US$14.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-60127-002-3 Goi
Political Islam in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia in 2009: A Year Fraught with Challenges
Debating the Conduct and Nature of Malaysian Politics: Communalism and New Media Post-March 2008
The results of Malaysia's general election held on 8 March 2008 was nothing short of monumental. By winning five state legislatures and denying the incumbent governing coalition its hitherto routine two-thirds parliamentary majority, the performance of the opposition, swayed by the contribution of the new media, raised hopes that Malaysian politics had turned a corner. Following the elections, the popular discursive terrain in Malaysia was awash …
Muslim Identity, Local Networks, and Transnational Islam in Thailand's Southern Border Provinces
This paper discusses the nature of local permutations of transnational Muslim networks in Thailand's southern Muslim-majority provinces and assesses their impact on creed, custom, and conflict in the region. More specifically, the paper interrogates the agenda and methods of idea and norm-propagation on the part of these agents and networks, and their evolving role, as well as the structures and conduits through which they operate and mobilize. I…
Creating Cadres: Mobilization, Activism and the Youth Wing of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, PAS
Signs of the Times: Election Fever, Recurring Themes, and Political Malaise
“Founded in 1974, Southeast Asian Affairs provides, without fear or favour, informed and in-depth annual analyses of this vibrant region and its component countries. It is the only publication which does this and is in its own class without peers. It is a mandatory reference and read for those seriously interested in knowing Southeast Asia.”—Professor A.B. Shamsul, Founding Director, Institute of Ethnic Studies, Universiti Bebangsaan Malaysia.“No…
Malaysia's March 2008 general election: Understanding the new media factor
The Malaysian general elections held on 8 March 2008 proved to be a historic event. For the first time, the political opposition managed to deny the incumbent National Front coalition a two-thirds parliamentary majority. Attempts to explain the opposition coalition's 2008 success have identified new media as a critical factor that turned the tide in the opposition's favour. The purpose of this paper is to better understand the new media factor at…
No Man’s Land: Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia
Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Southeast Asia
Selected Entries ASEAN, Boat People, Brunei Revolt, Buddhism, Communism in South-East Asia, Doi Moi, Fretilin, General Giap, Herzog Affair, Ho Chi Minh, Indochina Wars, Islam, Khmer Rouge, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Manila Pact, Ferdinand Marcos, Mekong Project, Nixon Doctrine, Overseas Chinese, Pathet Lao, Pol Pot, Fidel Ramos, South China Sea, Spratly Islands, President Suharto, Tet Offensive, Tonkin Gulf Incident, Vietnam War, Young Turks, ZOPFAN
The Quest for Regional and Domestic Stability
Southeast Asian Affairs is the only one of its kind: a comprehensive annual review devoted to the international relations, politics, and economies of the region and its nation-states. The collected volumes of Southeast Asian Affairs have become a compendium documenting the dynamic evolution of regional and national developments in Southeast Asia from the end of the 'second' Vietnam War to the alarms and struggles of today. Over the years, the edi…
Religion and Nationalism in Southeast Asia
Religion and nationalism are two of the most potent and enduring forces that have shaped the modern world. Yet, there has been little systematic study of how these two forces have interacted to provide powerful impetus for mobilization in Southeast Asia, a region where religious identities are as strong as nationalist impulses. At the heart of many religious conflicts in Southeast Asia lies competing conceptions of nation and nationhood, identity…
The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies
Southeast Asia in 2017: Grappling with Uncertainty
“Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region’s dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is…
Making Jihadis, Waging Jihad: Transnational and Local Dimensions of the Isis Phenomenon in Indonesia and Malaysia
This article examines the ISIS phenomenon in Indonesia and Malaysia. It aims to explain how, where, and why the transnational and local intersect as well as the role of religion, particularly in the ideological narratives and recruitment strategies of local jihadi groups. At the heart of this analysis is the question to what extent Indonesians and Malaysians were lured into joining ISIS as a result of its "universal" ideology and global recruitme…
The Sound of Silence: Nuancing Religiopolitical Legitimacy and Conceptualizing the Appeal of Isis in Malaysia
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 41, Number 1, April 2019
Political science (29 works) · Law (23 works) · Asian Studies and History (22 works) · Politics (21 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · History (11 works) · Southeast asia (10 works)