Dr. Ahmad Zakaria is
the Tun Abdul Razak Chair in Southeast Asian Studies at
Ohio University. He also
was Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the NationalUniversity
of Malaysia (UKM). He was Assistant Secretary at the Ministry
of ForeignAffairs and Deputy Director-General of ISIS Malaysia.
In addition, he was aFulbright Scholar at the Hoover Institution
of Stanford University and Visiting Fellowat the Strategic
and Defense Studies Centre of the Australian National University,
as well as a Senior Fellow at the Resource Systems Institute,
the East-West Center inHawaii and at the Department of Political
Science of the National University of Singapore. Dr. Zakaria
holds a B.S. from University of Singapore, an M.A. from McMaster
University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT. His
extensive publications include Government and Politics
of Malaysia (1989),
Military-Civilian Relations in Southeast Asia (1985), Pacific
Asia in the 1990’s (1992), and United
Nations Peacekeeping: Panacea or Pandora’s Box? (1994).
