Describing the war in Iraq as "a watershed in the global system", senior Malaysian specialist in international relations and foreign affairs, Professor Lee Poh Ping of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's Institute of Malaysian and International Studies shares his insights in this e-mail interview with malaysiakini .

Malaysiakini: The war in Iraq has exacerbated the fear that the United States is becoming a new imperialist power.

Lee: There is a very understandable fear that the US is turning into an imperialist power, if it is not o­ne already, after the Iraqi war.