Khoo Boo TeikKHOO, Boo Teik, BA (Rochester), Master of City Planning (MIT), PhD (Flinders), is Associate Professor and Deputy Dean in the School of Social Sciences, University Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia. He is the author of Paradoxes of Mahathirism: n Intellectual Biography of Mahathir Mohamad (Oxford University Press, 1995) which had its 5th impression issued in 2001. Khoo is co-editor (with Francis Loh Kok Wah) of Democracy in Malaysia: Discourses and Practices (2002). He has also published academic essays in refereed journals and edited volumes, articles in the international press, and social and political commentaries. An Associate of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Perth, Khoo is a member of the editorial boards of The Australian Journal of Political Science, the USM's Kajian Malaysia (Malaysian Studies) and the Penang-based NGO publication, Aliran Monthly. Presently he is also engaged in collaborative research on Southeast Asian politics and social change with colleagues working in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and Thailand. Read More Read Less