johans@usm.my
josara45@yahoo.co.uk

Currently Johan is a visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies(ISEAS). Professor of Political Science and Research Dean (from 2003) for social transformation issues in the Universiti Sains Malaysia Penang, Johan was also Head of the pro-team committee setting up the Centre for International Studies, USM. Dean for the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang from 1994 - 1996 where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in politics, philosophy and international relations continuously from 1997 - 2000, in 1997, Johan took up the Visiting Chair of the ASEAN Studies at the University of Toronto.

Johan was editor of the journal of Malaysian Studies (Kajian Malaysia) from 1986 -1990 and has been associated with various public interest groups including the Malaysian Academic Movement (GERAK) and the staff association of the USM which he was president from 1982 - 1984. In his youthful years he was a journalist with ‘The Straits Time’ in Kuala Lumpur (1969 - 1970).

Now mostly associated with ALIRAN, he serves on the ALIRAN Trust Board and regularly writes for its monthly magazine. Johan worked with the Malaysian Local Democracy Initiative (Malodi) based in Penang and has been an active participant in all kinds of public interest international, regional and local committees, conferences and workshops.

He has done consultation work for various institutions, including a project of the United Nations Development Programme on Human Rights entitled Report on Human Rights in Malaysia, for the Human Development Report 2002.

His published works include the first major study of Malaysia’s foreign policy (1983) and the nexus between industrialization and the institutionalization of authoritarian regimes in Southeast Asia (1991). He has since written numerous articles on issues pertaining to regional security, foreign investment, the role of major powers, the Cambodian peace process and the rise of the middle class as a factor in politics in major, widely circulated journals. His most recent publication, edited with Francis Loh, is entitled New Politics in Malaysia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002.

Johan was a member of the ARENA Executive Board 2000 - 2003 and was re-elected for the Executive Board 2003 - 2006. Johan is a member of the ARENA Editorial Committee.