Chapter 2. Developmentalist State in Malaysia: Its Origins, Nature, and Contemporary Transformation

Embong, Abdul Rahman

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“…This period saw the Malayan forces, backed by their British colonizers, fight against the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA), a group of Communist insurgents who claimed to be promoting a new democratic socialist Malaya [45,46,52]. In response, the coalition launched its 'hearts and minds' campaign to weaken the social appeal of Communist propaganda and earn the loyalty of those sympathetic to them [45,48,52,[56][57]. This proved to be an effective component of the coalition's anti-Communist strategy as it led to the establishment of a new constitution singed between the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) and the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) in 1957 [45][46].…”

Section: Malaysia's 'Cohabitave' National Securitymentioning

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“…The new constitution recognizes the legality of special preferences and privileged positions being provided to the Malays [45,48,[52][53][54][55][56][57][58]. Islam has been formally elected as the state religion, while Malay was made as the country's official language.…”

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“…At the domestic level, however, the opposite is observed. Mahathir's state-sponsored Islam has been propagated with the help of strong coercive legislation, particularly the Internal Security Act (ISA) of 1960 and its replacement, the Security Offences Special Measures Act (SOSMA) of 2012 [48,54,56,59,63,72]. This highlights underlying contradictions within Mahathir's ideational panorama-conquering the hearts and minds of a fearful population through the forced imposition of a coalition-made Islam.…”

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A Case for Cohabitative Security: The Philippine and Malaysian Experience

Magcamit

2014

Journal of Human Security

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This article attempts to explore and analyse the evidence for cohabiting the human security concept into the national security frameworks of ASEAN countries. Using the Philippines and Malaysia as case studies, the article determines the extent to which public officials and policymakers have redefined and reenvisioned national security by incorporating non-traditional, people-centered elements of human security. The word 'cohabitation' refers to national governments' efforts to amalgamate statist and humanist dimensions of security when articulating and implementing their national security rhetoric and agenda. It argues that human security naturally complements state security, and vice versa. As such, human security and state security co-exist in a constructive manner that enhances the overall level of national security. In other words, they are mutually constitutive rather than mutually corrosive. Both cases underscore a two-pronged assumption. First, the meaning and provision of national security can neither be eloquently articulated nor completely substantiated without considerations for 'below the state' actors and issues. And second, the eminent status vis-à-vis power of the state in providing national security can neither be trivialized nor undermined.

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