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viii HRH Raja Nazrin Shah viii PREFACE I was thrilled to be given the opportunity by ISEAS to present my views on what I term “The New International System”. The topic has occupied a good deal of my time and attention during recent years and even if some people may disagree with some of my views, few will disagree that the world is presently going through a phase that requires a lot of thinking and reflection. This is my humble contribution. Let me make a confession. I speak as a European. From 1971 to 1997 I worked in the Royal Danish Foreign Ministry on European integration and had the honour and privilege of occupying the post of State-Secretary from April 1989, when the seminal changes to Europe’s political architecture started, till August 1997, when I left to be Ambassador of Denmark to the ix The Monarchy in Contemporary Malaysia ix Republic of Singapore. No one can escape his past. The way I reason and observe politics and economics is undoubtedly influenced (some may say “marred”) by this intellectual heritage. Preface ...

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