Anthony Milner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Milner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Milner |
| SIGNATURE | MILNER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2777-2196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“Hedging” and “Context Analysis” in Malaysian Foreign Relations
The idea of “hedging” is employed increasingly as a critical international relations (IR) tool, especially for understanding current interaction between ASEAN states and China. In certain circumstances, it does have explanatory advantages; but “hedging” is sometimes employed in unconvincing ways, and—like related concepts of rational-strategic calculus, such as balancing and bandwagoning—its ready use can lead to the neglect of other factors driv…
Toward an Asean Strategic Narrative: Community, Agency, Inclusivity
At the present time there is a growing interest in strategic narratives. The United States and China, not surprisingly, receive most attention. In an increasingly multi‐polar world, however, it is critical to consider the strategic narratives of India, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Significant work has already been focused on individual Southeast Asian states—and some also on ASEAN as a grouping. The present essay seeks to tell the ASEAN story in a …
Asean’s inclusive regionalism: Ambitious at three levels
Winstedt, colonialism and the Malaysian history wars
European colonialist thinking continues to influence history writing after national independence - even in the construction of national narratives. In the case of Malaysia, the work of the scholar-official, Richard Winstedt, has had a far-reaching impact - and one that is seldom recognised. The 20th century was a crucial period in the political and historical construction of ‘Malay(si)a’ - a time when a colonial state was imagined, and then posit…
The Timing of Islamization in Southeast Asia: Local Agency, and the Challenge of Analysing Religious Conversion
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 96, Part 1, No. 324, June 2023
Repositioning Indonesia – Thoughts on the Indo-Pacific
Before considering how best to reposition Indonesia in the world – and I will be looking, in particular, at Indonesia’s current Indo-Pacific initiative - we need to ask how the world itself has been repositioned. The terms of reference for this conference go straight to this second question. They immediately highlight the theme of globalization, noting how it has promoted “growing connectivity among states” and “revolutionized human interaction”.…
Long-term Themes in Malaysian Foreign Policy: Hierarchy Diplomacy, Non-interference and Moral Balance
Malaysia’s approach to foreign relations over seven decades has been in some ways both creative and distinctive. This article focusses on how Malaysian foreign policy has been influenced by the heritage of inter-state relations among the Muslim monarchies (sultanates, kerajaan) of the Malay Archipelago in the pre-colonial period. Taking note of current research on China’s foreign-policy traditions, the article examines Malay literature and letter…
Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia
The radical Scottish doctor, Orientalist, colonial administrator and lobbyist, John Crawfurd was a proponent for the creation of a utopian empire based on free trade. He worked for the British East India Company for more than twenty years and played a crucial part in the administration of the British Empire in nineteenth century Southeast Asia. Crawfurd's 1829 pamphlet was remarkable, if for no other reason than, as part of the anti-monopoly camp…
Australia’s Northern Shield? Papua New Guinea and the Defence of Australia since 1880
The book’s major theme is no surprise. Over an extended period – going well back into the nineteenth century – Papua New Guinea (PNG), located to the immediate north of Australia, has been of central importance in Australia’s security outlook. It was the ‘focus of Australian concerns about the ambitions of Imperial Germany, Japanese aggression and [in the 1960s] the Indonesian threats of infiltration and subversion’ (xiv). The Defence White Paper…
Beyond Sovereignty: Non-Western International Relations in Malaysia’s Foreign Relations
As with other countries, Malaysia expresses concern about national sovereignty and issues related to the distribution and balance of power. But Malaysia’s foreign policy behaviour has some distinctive features, and these may be explained partly in terms of the heritage of pre-modern thinking. That heritage of non-Western International Relations (IR) — which includes perspectives on the character of the state, the interests of the state and intern…
Malaysia in 2017
The Najib government continued to consolidate its political hold on Malaysia in 2017. Various factors, including a moderately improved economic situation and a relatively generous 2018 budget, suggested that it had good prospects for winning the next election, to be held at the latest in August 2018. Beyond party politics, however, there were indications of deep change taking place in Malaysian society—deep enough to raise questions about the nat…
Culture and the international relations of Asia
Looking back over the last 30 years, culture as an explanatory factor has been in retreat. Today, however, with the determined reassertion of Islamic values, and an increasingly confident China developing its own international paradigms, the need to investigate cultural and historical specificities is hard to deny. In the Asian region, developments in the South China Sea during 2016 have been especially perplexing for many commentators: Internati…
Malaysia in 2016
In 2016 Prime Minister Najib overcame challenges that many predicted would destroy him. The crisis, however, has helped to deepen many of the fault lines in Malaysian politics and society, and to promote public apprehension. Much will now depend on the resilience of the country’s institutions and economy
John Legge (1921–2016), AO, Fassa, Faha: Historian, Southeast Asianist, Institution Builder
Hikayat Johor dan Tawarikh Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar: Kajian, Transliterasi dan Terjemahan by A. Rahman Tang Abdullah (review)
Reviewed by: Hikayat Johor dan Tawarikh Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar: Kajian, Transliterasi dan Terjemahan by A. Rahman Tang Abdullah Anthony Milner Hikayat Johor dan Tawarikh Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar: Kajian, Transliterasi dan Terjemahan A. Rahman Tang Abdullah Johor Bahru: Yayasan Warisan Johor, 2011. 227 pp., ISBN: 978-983-2440-41-3 Work on nineteenth-century Johor has an obvious importance, and not merely from an academic perspective. Johor was…
Transforming Malaysia: Dominant and Competing Paradigms
In the wake of Malaysia’s 13th General Election some commentators speak of a sharpening of ethnic politics — with Prime Minister Najib blaming a "Chinese tsunami" for his government’s polling setbacks; others are optimistic about the arrival of a new "non-racialized form of politics" and the emergence of "transethnic solidarity". This book, which engages with both the race paradigm and its opponents, warns that change is likely to come slowly — b…
Practical vs. identity regionalism: Australia's APC initiative, a case study
On 4 June 2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his 'vision for an Asia Pacific community' (APC). Though failing to win support among Asian countries, the initiative offers a useful case study. This article does not focus on the motives and
"Identity Monarchy": Interrogating Heritage for a Divided Malaysia
Malaysia, it has been observed, is currently experiencing a "revival" of "Malaykingship" with the growing importance of "proactive and participating constitutionalrulers." In fact, modern Malaysia has since independence been characterized by monarchy—by a multiplicity of Rulers and elaborate royal ceremony and hierarchy—as well as by its "plural society." But the modern monarchs—though they havenever become quite "constitutional Rulers"—cannot be…
Analysing Asian regionalism: What is an ‘architectural perspective’
Localisation, regionalism and the history of ideas in Southeast Asia
Much analysis of Asian regional relations and institutions is written in an historical and cultural vacuum. The impression is often given that security or economic arrangements are comparable with physical structures — creations of engineers rather than social scientists (or even architects). The writings of Amitav Acharya, now Professor of International Affairs at American University in Washington, DC, are a distinguished exception. Already the …
The Malays
Track 2 Security Dialogue in the Asia-Pacific: Reflections and Future Directions
This article critically reviews the literature on Track 2 security dialogue in the Asia‐Pacific and suggests a number of possible avenues for further research. From almost a standing start, Track 2 security dialogue in this part of the world has burgeoned over the past decade and a half. As these institutions and activities have grown, so too has a body of scholarship grown around them which has striven to stay abreast of them and – at least in t…
Region, Security and the Return of History
Region, Security and the Return of History
Asia‐Pacific Perceptions of the Financial Crisis: Lessons and Affirmations
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 25, Number 2, August 2003
A Note on Aru and Kota Cina
Colonial Records History: British Malaya
Although often well-written and carefully researched, many recent studies of the political history of Colonial Malaya seem dated. This is not to say that they are generally pro-British; nevertheless, when considered alongside historical work on many other areas of Southeast Asia, the 'British Malayan' histories appear 'colonial' in their preoccupations and perspectives. Why does so much Malayan history have this character? One cannot point to a l…
Long-term Themes in Malaysian Foreign Policy: Hierarchy Diplomacy, Non-interference and Moral Balance
Malaysia’s approach to foreign relations over seven decades has been in some ways both creative and distinctive. This article focusses on how Malaysian foreign policy has been influenced by the heritage of inter-state relations among the Muslim monarchies (sultanates, kerajaan) of the Malay Archipelago in the pre-colonial period. Taking note of current research on China’s foreign-policy traditions, the article examines Malay literature and letter…
Analysing Asian regionalism: What is an ‘architectural perspective’
Practical vs. identity regionalism: Australia's APC initiative, a case study
On 4 June 2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his 'vision for an Asia Pacific community' (APC). Though failing to win support among Asian countries, the initiative offers a useful case study. This article does not focus on the motives and
What is Left of Engagement with Asia
Culture and the international relations of Asia
Looking back over the last 30 years, culture as an explanatory factor has been in retreat. Today, however, with the determined reassertion of Islamic values, and an increasingly confident China developing its own international paradigms, the need to investigate cultural and historical specificities is hard to deny. In the Asian region, developments in the South China Sea during 2016 have been especially perplexing for many commentators: Internati…
Approaching Asia, and Asian studies, in Australia
(1999). Approaching Asia, and Asian studies, in Australia. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 193-203
Islam and Malay kingship
Islam is often seen as playing only a minor role in pre-colonial Malay political life. J. M. Gullick, for instance, in his seminal work Indigenous political systems of Western Malaya concludes that Islam “was not to any significant extent a ‘state religion’”. The “chaplains of the more devout Sultans and chiefs”, he explains, “never attained any collective importance in the political system owing to the lack of organization”; there were “no Kathi…
Track 2 Security Dialogue in the Asia-Pacific: Reflections and Future Directions
This article critically reviews the literature on Track 2 security dialogue in the Asia‐Pacific and suggests a number of possible avenues for further research. From almost a standing start, Track 2 security dialogue in this part of the world has burgeoned over the past decade and a half. As these institutions and activities have grown, so too has a body of scholarship grown around them which has striven to stay abreast of them and – at least in t…
Asean’s inclusive regionalism: Ambitious at three levels
Beyond Sovereignty: Non-Western International Relations in Malaysia’s Foreign Relations
As with other countries, Malaysia expresses concern about national sovereignty and issues related to the distribution and balance of power. But Malaysia’s foreign policy behaviour has some distinctive features, and these may be explained partly in terms of the heritage of pre-modern thinking. That heritage of non-Western International Relations (IR) — which includes perspectives on the character of the state, the interests of the state and intern…
Malaysia in 2016
In 2016 Prime Minister Najib overcame challenges that many predicted would destroy him. The crisis, however, has helped to deepen many of the fault lines in Malaysian politics and society, and to promote public apprehension. Much will now depend on the resilience of the country’s institutions and economy
Localisation, regionalism and the history of ideas in Southeast Asia
Much analysis of Asian regional relations and institutions is written in an historical and cultural vacuum. The impression is often given that security or economic arrangements are comparable with physical structures — creations of engineers rather than social scientists (or even architects). The writings of Amitav Acharya, now Professor of International Affairs at American University in Washington, DC, are a distinguished exception. Already the …
Asia‐Pacific Perceptions of the Financial Crisis: Lessons and Affirmations
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 25, Number 2, August 2003
Inventing Politics: The Case of Malaysia
Journal Article INVENTING POLITICS: THE CASE OF MALAYSIA Get access A. C. MILNER A. C. MILNER Institute for Advanced StudyPrinceton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 132, Issue 1, August 1991, Pages 104–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/132.1.104 Published: 01 August 1991
The Haslemere Festival
Radio Notes
Latin in Church
Radio Notes
Midsummer Marriage
The Vocal Element in Melody
Broadcast Music
Man and His Music: Late Renaissance and Baroque Music
Church Music
Interpreting Early Music
Medieval Music
London's Chair
Orchestral
Modern Song
In Memoriam: Matyas Seiber
Milton Babbitt, Don Banks, Peter Racine Fricker, Lawrence Leonard, Anthony Milner, Reginald Smith Brindle, Michael Tippett, In Memoriam: Mátyás Seiber, The Musical Times, Vol. 111, No. 1531 (Sep., 1970), pp. 886-887
The Sacred Capons
A Note on Aru and Kota Cina
Notes on C H Thomsen: Missionary to the Malays
(1981). Notes on C H Thomsen: missionary to the Malays. Indonesia Circle. School of Oriental & African Studies. Newsletter: Vol. 9, No. 25, pp. 45-54
Islam and Malay kingship
Islam is often seen as playing only a minor role in pre-colonial Malay political life. J. M. Gullick, for instance, in his seminal work Indigenous political systems of Western Malaya concludes that Islam “was not to any significant extent a ‘state religion’”. The “chaplains of the more devout Sultans and chiefs”, he explains, “never attained any collective importance in the political system owing to the lack of organization”; there were “no Kathi…
In memoriam — Professor John M. Echols
In memoriam — Professor John M. Echols." Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, 6(2), p. 35
Briefly noted
Barry B. Blakeley, Annoted Genealogies of Spring and Autumn Period Clans: Volume 1: Seven Ruling Clans, Chinese Material Centre, San Francisco, 1983. xxxiii, 385 pp. Preliminary considerations, introduction, index, charts. Cloth: US$15.50. Diane Dunlop, comp., An Introduction to Japanese Theatre, Asia Teachers Association, Sydney, 1983. 48pp. Introduction, glossary, bibliography. Paper: $4. Robert H. Taylor, An Undeveloped State: The Study of Mod…
Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries
Southeast Asia has sometimes been portrayed as a static place. In the ninth to fourteenth centuries, however, the region experienced extensive trade, bitter wars, kingdoms rising and falling, ethnic groups on the move, the construction of impressive monuments and debate about profound religious issues. Readers of this volume will learn much of how people lived in Southeast Asia five hundred to one thousand years ago; the region today cannot be co…
Europe and the orient
Colonial Records History: British Malaya
Although often well-written and carefully researched, many recent studies of the political history of Colonial Malaya seem dated. This is not to say that they are generally pro-British; nevertheless, when considered alongside historical work on many other areas of Southeast Asia, the 'British Malayan' histories appear 'colonial' in their preoccupations and perspectives. Why does so much Malayan history have this character? One cannot point to a l…
Asaa Singapore conference: ‘New directions in Asian studies’
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