Nurturing a common destiny


It is counter-productive to import foreign narratives and apply them when seeking reforms in Malaysia.

THE ongoing Black Lives Matter protests around the world have continued to fuel debate and introspection in politics, economics and culture. As a graduate of comparative politics and sociology, the phenomenon is making me revisit the many theories of government, institutional legitimacy and political philosophy that I read at the London School of Economics.

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