Popular understanding of the foreign policy of Malaysia has mostly been fragmentary as the country is not only multi-ethnic, multi-faith and multi-lingual with many external linkages, but it is also geographically positioned as a critical crossroad of the world.

Moreover, there has been a lack of academic ambition to construct a overall discourse or narrative of the country's foreign policy from a historical perspective with all its continuities and changes.

The highly acclaimed book ‘Malaysia's Foreign Policy: The First Fifty Years - Alignment, Neutralism, Islamism' attempts to fill the gaps and provide a fuller picture...