TY - BOOK AU - ONG Weichong TI - Between safe havens in cross-border insurgency: Malaysia, Thailand and the Second Emergency (1952-89) PY - 2020/// KW - MALAYSIA KW - THAILAND KW - MALAYA KW - CROSS BORDER INSURGENCY N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2019.1698176 ER -