Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World

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Mattias Fibiger (Assistant Professor, Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, Assistant Professor, Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School)

Suharto's Cold War

Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World

Mattias Fibiger (Assistant Professor, Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, Assistant Professor, Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School)

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Oxford University Press Inc
22 November 2023

Asian history; History of other lands; The Cold War; Political economy

Series: OXFORD STUDIES IN INTL HISTORY SERIES

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.

By: Mattias Fibiger (Assistant Professor Business Government and the International Economy Unit Assistant Professor Business Government and the International Economy Unit Harvard Business School)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9780197667224
ISBN 10: 0197667228
Series: OXFORD STUDIES IN INTL HISTORY SERIES
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 22 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World

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 *