TY - BOOK AU - Ong,Weichong TI - Malaysia's defeat of armed communism: the second emergency, 1968 - 1989 T2 - Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia SN - 9780415820882 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Malayan Communist Party KW - History KW - Communism KW - Malaysia KW - Insurgency KW - Counterinsurgency N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page 185-199) and index N2 - The Malayan Communist Party's (MCP) decisive defeat in 1960 led many academics and Counterinsurgency (COIN) experts to overlook the resurrection of its armed struggle in 1968. Most scholars continue to regard the so-called'Second Emergency' in Malaysia (1968-1989) as a non-event, and most of the recently published work on the MCP tends to focus on the earlier Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) ER -