Legacies of the Cold War in Malaysia
Anything but Communism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3985694 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meredith L Wei (0000-0002-2667-9571, Department of Political Science, University at Albany, SUNY, New York, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 511-529 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00472336.2019.1709128 |
| OpenAlex | W3002016743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 32 |
Malaya's anti-communist Emergency of 1948–1960 demonstrated the lengths to which elites – first British colonial, then local – were prepared to go to combat communism's advance domestically. But the threat of communism, then the spectre of an all-too-convenient communist bogey, resonated across the polity well beyond the Malayan Communist Party's defeat. The Cold War left a complex and enduring legacy for Malaysian formal politics and civil society. We can see these legacies in terms of political ideologies, settlement patterns, restrictive legislation and geo-political positioning. Overall, Malaysia did experience a genuine and aggressive communist movement, and its counterinsurgency measures, coupling a hearts-and-minds strategy with military suppression, remain a model for even present-day efforts against extremist mobilisation. But what has left a deeper stain is less the Malayan Communist Party per se than how these battles sculpted the ideological, demographic, legal and security landscape: a largely Chinese, internationally vilified, anti-capitalist movement at a formative period in Malaysian socio-political development helped to delegitimise ideological alternatives and bolster a strong, centralised, specifically communal and capitalist state, nested in a significantly depoliticised society
Communism · Economic history · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Socialism · Sociology · State (computer science · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Military History and Strategy
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |