Asia Insight – Next in Line: Malaysia’s Rising Leaders and Foreign Policy

This is the fourth episode of the Asia Insight podcast miniseries by The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), which examines the future of foreign policy through the lens of emerging leadership in South and Southeast Asia. Ann Marie Murphy moderates a conversation with Nur Shahadah Jamil and Ariel Tan on Malaysia’s emerging generation of political leaders and the factors influencing their foreign policy outlooks from Kuala Lumpur.

Ann Marie Murphy, a NYSEAN co-founder, is Professor at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, and 2019-2010 ASEAN Research Program Fulbright Scholar.

Nur Shahadah Jamil is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of China Studies at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Read her NBR commentary, “The Future of Malaysian Foreign Policy in an Era of U.S.-China Competition.”

Ariel Tan is a Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the Malaysia Programme at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Read her NBR commentary, “Malaysia’s Foreign Policy: Structural Stability Amid Geopolitical Shift.”