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Malaysia’s Counterterrorism Policy

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Malaysia tackles a plethora of security threats that have the potential to pose challenges to its sovereignty and survival. Malaysia’s security and threat perception have been influenced by two broad categories, including those of the structural and the social. Structurally, the physical configuration of Malaysia, which has distinctive strategic geopolitical features – the national territories are made up of west Malaysia (the Malay Peninsula) and east Malaysia (Borneo), and its sharing of physical and maritime boundaries with nearly all its Southeast Asian neighbors – has an important bearing on its conception of security. Malaysia’s security has also been influenced by the country’s political and social variables, particularly, on the multi-racial composition of the society.

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  1. University of the Philippines, Quezon, Philippines

    Amparo Pamela H. Fabe

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  1. School of International Studies, University of Trento, Trento, Trento, Italy

    Scott Nicholas Romaniuk

  2. Department of Political Science and International Studies, McDaniel College , Westminster, Maryland, USA

    Francis Grice

  3. Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Catania, Italy

    Daniela Irrera

  4. DefenceReport, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada

    Stewart Webb

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Fabe, A.P.H. (2017). Malaysia’s Counterterrorism Policy. In: Romaniuk, S., Grice, F., Irrera, D., Webb, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Counterterrorism Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55769-8_36

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