Era of transition : Malaysia after Mahathir / Ooi Kee Beng.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Umno smoothly alters the Malay agenda -- 2. Fighting the money game in Umno elections -- 3. A year of ruling comfortably -- 4. "Queuing the crowd" strikes at the heart of corruption -- 5. Time for Umno to rise above ethnic politics -- 6. After the honeymoon comes dialogue -- 7. Interfaith dialogue need not be destabilising -- 8. How to understand post-Mahathir Malaysia -- 9. Slow or fast? Abdullah needs to be nimble with reforms -- 10. Umno should look within -- not at PAS --11. Shoring up the support pillar -- 12. A case for tension between state and Umno --13. A new Malaysian storyline -- 14. Affirmative action part of economic progress --15. Inter-ethnic unity needs political cooperation --16. Debate can help define history -- 17. Umno and the price of success --18. NEP: Never-Ending Programme? --19. Shifting into third gear for his thid year -- 20. All eyes on Kelantan by-election -- 21. Seize the moment to reform the police -- 22. Umno-PAS polarity seems to be fading -- 23. Malaysia's thin line between state and faith -- 24. Too much consociationalism for Malaysia's own good -- 25. Adapting Islam to modern statehood -- 26. Islam as a tool of modernization -- 27. Taking Islam Hadhari global -- 28. Politics flounders in wake of nature's fury -- 29. Resolving differences in disaster's wake -- 30. A historic opportunity for Asean unity -- 31. It must be about helping people -- 32. Chance for Asean countries to rally together -- 33. Strong KL-Singapore ties can boost Asean cohesion -- 34. Much at stake at the East Asia Summit -- 35. Myanmar question, Asean dilemma -- 36. The world's just a circle in a spiral --37. No mutualism, no regionalism -- 38. Regionalism hinges on national stability -- 39. Breaking down colonialism's walls.

"Era of Transition, a collection of Dr Ooi Kee Beng's previously published commentaries, provides one of the best informed analyses on the Abdullah administration's performance in the first 24 months. The main thread that holds the collection together is Ooi's emphasis that the Mahathir's legacy is complex and complicated, leaving the Abdullah's administration with the struggle to limit collateral damage, in areas such as human rights, corruption, money politics, the handling of political Islam, and key administration" (Singapore Journal of Legal Studies).