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NASIHA SHAKINA BINTI SHARIFFUDDIN

While poverty continues to be one of the main agendas in many countries including Malaysia and Indonesia, the issue of feminization of poverty in both countries remains unresolved. The feminization of poverty in Malaysia and Indonesia become complex due to the fact that poverty and gender inequality are multidimensional problems where there is no ultimate solution to overcome it. This study seeks to investigate the factors underlying the creation of feminization of poverty in Malaysia and ...

In the today's globalized world everything is expanded and interwined within the sphere of politics, economiec, sosial, cultural and environmental. The exchange of goods and services, also the movements of people are becoming limitless and boundless, as everything is simply interconnected. All these developments has contributed to the growing complexity and the dynamics pattern of international agendeas as it is no longer revolve around traditional security ,atters such as peace and war al...

Despite the fact that populism has been seen as a threat towards democracy in the mass media, however, the paradoxical aspect of populism has always been disregard. The controversies surrounding this term requires a better apprehension of its complexity. Furthermore, most of the narratives have been crafted in the Europe-centric way which leads to a one sided story and strongly opposing conclusion among other continents. Therefore, the current case study will perform a discour...

The South China Sea disputes consist of many claimants and among the claimants are Brunei, China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Philippines and Vietnam. The disputes becoming complicated with each of the claimant marking their own territory based on the United Nations Conventions on The Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Moreover, the establishment of Peta Baru by the Malaysian government led into several overlapping maritime territories along with its current territorial conflict. Hence, Malaysia enters severa...