Between safe havens in cross-border insurgency: Malaysia, Thailand and the Second Emergency (1952–89)
From a local insurgent movement in the Malayan Emergency (1948–60), the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) transitioned into a cross-border one in the Second Emergency (1968–89) with regional links and implications. Due to the fixation on the Malayan Emergency period, the transition of the CPM insurgen...
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| description | From a local insurgent movement in the Malayan Emergency (1948–60), the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) transitioned into a cross-border one in the Second Emergency (1968–89) with regional links and implications. Due to the fixation on the Malayan Emergency period, the transition of the CPM insurgency from local to cross border during the Second Emergency period remains underexplored. This article shows how the CPM insurgency transitioned from a local one in Peninsular Malaysia to a protracted cross border conflict with a safe haven in Southern Thailand and how this significant development allowed the CPM to set the conditions of a persistent slow burn conflict in Southern Thailand that was difficult to defeat by security operations alone. This article also addresses how Malaysia, the counterinsurgent state dealt with the unique set of challenges associated with a cross-border insurgency that was subject to the ebb and flow ‘good neighbourly’ relations with Thailand. Finally, this article examines the negotiation process and how the lessons learnt from the failure of the Baling Peace Talks in 1955 were translated into an enduring peace at Haadyai in 1989. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1639742023-03-05T17:23:52Z Between safe havens in cross-border insurgency: Malaysia, Thailand and the Second Emergency (1952–89) Ong, Wei Chong S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies Humanities::History Social sciences::Political science From a local insurgent movement in the Malayan Emergency (1948–60), the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) transitioned into a cross-border one in the Second Emergency (1968–89) with regional links and implications. Due to the fixation on the Malayan Emergency period, the transition of the CPM insurgency from local to cross border during the Second Emergency period remains underexplored. This article shows how the CPM insurgency transitioned from a local one in Peninsular Malaysia to a protracted cross border conflict with a safe haven in Southern Thailand and how this significant development allowed the CPM to set the conditions of a persistent slow burn conflict in Southern Thailand that was difficult to defeat by security operations alone. This article also addresses how Malaysia, the counterinsurgent state dealt with the unique set of challenges associated with a cross-border insurgency that was subject to the ebb and flow ‘good neighbourly’ relations with Thailand. Finally, this article examines the negotiation process and how the lessons learnt from the failure of the Baling Peace Talks in 1955 were translated into an enduring peace at Haadyai in 1989. Ministry of Education (MOE) Submitted/Accepted version This work was supported by the Ministry of Education Singapore [AcRF Tier 1] 2022-12-28T00:03:50Z 2022-12-28T00:03:50Z 2020 Journal Article Ong, W. C. (2020). Between safe havens in cross-border insurgency: Malaysia, Thailand and the Second Emergency (1952–89). Small Wars & Insurgencies, 31(6), 1349-1372. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2019.1698176 0959-2318 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163974 10.1080/09592318.2019.1698176 2-s2.0-85076540589 6 31 1349 1372 en 2017-T1-001-127 Small Wars & Insurgencies © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. All rights reserved. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Small Wars & Insurgencies on 10 Dec 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09592318.2019.1698176 application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Humanities::History Social sciences::Political science Ong, Wei Chong Between safe havens in cross-border insurgency: Malaysia, Thailand and the Second Emergency (1952–89) |
| title | Between safe havens in cross-border insurgency: Malaysia, Thailand and the Second Emergency (1952–89) |
| title_full | Between safe havens in cross-border insurgency: Malaysia, Thailand and the Second Emergency (1952–89) |
| title_fullStr | Between safe havens in cross-border insurgency: Malaysia, Thailand and the Second Emergency (1952–89) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Between safe havens in cross-border insurgency: Malaysia, Thailand and the Second Emergency (1952–89) |
| title_short | Between safe havens in cross-border insurgency: Malaysia, Thailand and the Second Emergency (1952–89) |
| title_sort | between safe havens in cross border insurgency malaysia thailand and the second emergency 1952 89 |
| topic | Humanities::History Social sciences::Political science |
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