Dr Mahathir’s Selected Letters to World Leaders

by Mohamad, Dr. Mahathir; Ahmad, Tan Sri Abdullah

• ISBN13: 9789814634052
• ISBN10: 9814634050
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-09-07
• Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)

Summary

Dr Mahathir Mohamad governed Malaysia for 22 years (1981–2003), during which he wrote and received many letters from many world leaders.The letters presented in this volume—by Dr Mahathir, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Lee Kuan Yew, Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein, among others—argue the contrasting positions on bilateral and joint relations, globalization, as well as wars and conflicts.Dr Mahathir writes directly, in his own distinctive voice and style. The correspondents were transparent, solid, informative, and sometimes robust.

Author Biography

Edited and compiled by Tan Sri Abdullah Ahmad, an MCKK-, Cambridge- and Harvard-educated writer, public intellectual and the founding Chairman of Institut Kajian Politik dan Ekonomi (IKAPE). He was Special Envoy to the United Nations (UN) between 1996 and 2000, and Editor-in-Chief of the New Straits Times for several years.