Acknowledgments
Note on Spelling, Names, and Translation
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Path to Power
Chapter 2: In the Shadow of Vietnam
Chapter 3: A New Order
Chapter 4: An Anti-Chinese Axis
Chapter 5: Internationalizing Counterrevolution
Chapter 6: Capital and Consolidation
Chapter 7: The Travails of Development
Chapter 8: The Age of Oil
Chapter 9: Realignments
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Mattias Fibiger is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. He is a historian of Asia's twentieth century specializing in political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.
In Suharto's Cold War, Mattias Fibiger not only situates the
consolidation of the Suharto regime in Indonesia in the late 1960s
and 1970s within the global Cold War context but also shows the
consequences of the anti-communist turn in Indonesia under Suharto
for the direction of the Cold War across Southeast Asia during this
period. The book thus offers a major contribution to our
understanding of the history of modern Indonesia and Southeast
Asia, and of the Cold War.
*John T. Sidel, London School of Economics and Political
Science*
Fibiger's well-researched book provides an incomparably detailed
account of an all-important moment in the story of the Cold War in
the Third World: the violent ending in the mid-1960s of President
Sukarno's project of non-alignment and the founding of President
Suharto's US-allied dictatorship. By revealing what the Cold War
looked like from Jakarta, Fibiger re-orients our understanding of
international relations history.
*John Roosa, author of Buried Histories: The Anticommunist
Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia*
The book contributes to a greater understanding of how a
post-colonial country navigates its domestic interest amidst
immense global ideological tensions...Mattias Fibiger's Suharto's
Cold War presents a highly original study to help make sense of the
actions of Indonesia under Suharto in its interaction with other
countries both in the region and beyond. The book reaffirms the
importance of understanding the domestic context and political
situation in explaining a country's foreign policy behaviour.
*Yosef Djakababa, South East Asia Research*
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