Mattias Fibiger

Suharto's Cold War (eBook, PDF)

Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World

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Produktbeschreibung

After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country's communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the mass killing of some half a million leftists and fellow travelers. But his ambitions spanned far beyond perpetrating a politicide. Seeking to ensure that communism could never again take root in the archipelago, he constructed a New Order to reverse Indonesia's descent into political instability and economic crisis. Based on unprecedented access to Indonesian archives and a wealth of international sources, Suharto's Cold War masterfully narrates the first decades of the Suharto regime at the national, regional, and global levels. Suharto mobilized international aid and investment to build his counterrevolutionary dictatorship and ignite processes of economic development. He then aimed to project authoritarianism elsewhere in Southeast Asia by assisting right-wing dictators across the region. International capital made available through the global Cold War enabled Suharto to achieve the dictatorial and developmental ambitions that lay at the heart of his domestic and regional Cold Wars. Material realities at home and abroad disciplined Suharto's political project, while political considerations in Indonesia and around the world shaped his economic programs. Paying close attention to the interrelationship between the domestic and the international, the political and the economic, Suharto's Cold War makes a pathbreaking contribution to understanding Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197667231
• Artikelnr.: 68271406

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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