Look East Policy Malaysia Journal

The inadequacies of the regional security order in asia.

Look east policy malaysia journal. The look east policy has emerged as an important foreign policy initiative of india in the post cold war period. The look east policy was officially launched in 1992. The look east policy was originally formulated in 1982 by tun dr. Kuala lumpur the star asia news network prime minister tun dr mahathir mohamad has announced that malaysia is renewing or to be more precise upgrading the look east policy he adopted as a.

In short the look east policy was seen as a radical departure from malaysia s conservative foreign policy stance that is from pro western namely pro british to a pro japanese. As the case studies suggest mahathir s policies were first and foremost dictated by his nationalism and anti western stance which tended at times to alienate the japanese government. It was launched in 1991 by the narasimha rao government with the aim of developing political contacts increasing economic integration and forging security cooperation with countries of southeast asia. Policy evolved naturally from the look east policy as a direct consequence of the nature of china s rise.

The strait of malacca is used to transport approximately 25 of all the cargo sent by sea on the planet. Under the mahathir leadership malaysia had taken a bold step to reduce her dependence on her former colonial master. Thence the look east policy is an attempt to forge closer and deeper economic integration with its eastern neighbours as a part of the new in evidence in india s foreign policy and the engagement realpolitik with association of south east asian nations asean is the recognition on the part of india s elite of the. In comparison to south east asia asia pacific is larger region.

House international relations committee now called the house committee on foreign affairs summarises the relationship between the united states and malaysia as follows. The strait of malacca between sumatra and the malay peninsula is a strategic corridor connecting the indian and pacific oceans which maintains maritime traffic between europe africa and east asia. This article analyzes malaysia japan relations under the mahathir administration focusing on two case studies the look east policy and japanese direct investment in malaysia. Mahathir bin mohamad who was at that time the 4th prime minister of malaysia.

The look east policy celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2012 and both the prime ministers of japan and malaysia had agreed a year later to establish a framework of the lep 2 0. A 2003 house hearing by the subcommittee on east asia and the pacific of the u s. And india s own growing. Despite sometimes blunt and intemperate public remarks by prime minister mahathir u s malaysian cooperation has a solid record in areas as.