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Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968

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Description for Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968 Paperback. Economists with Guns offers the first comprehensive history of U.S relations with Indonesia during the 1960s, exploring the shared U.S. and Indonesian embrace of an authoritarian regime committed to military-led development. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
Offering the first comprehensive history of U.S relations with Indonesia during the 1960s, Economists with Guns explores one of the central dynamics of international politics during the Cold War: the emergence and U.S. embrace of authoritarian regimes pledged to programs of military-led development. Drawing on newly declassified archival material, Simpson examines how Americans and Indonesians imagined the country's development in the 1950s and why they abandoned their democratic hopes in the 1960s in favor of Suharto's military regime. Far from viewing development as a path to democracy, this book highlights the evolving commitment of Americans and Indonesians to authoritarianism in ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804771825
SKU
V9780804771825
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About Bradley R. Simpson
Bradley R. Simpson is Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is also the director of a National Security Archive project to declassify U.S. documents concerning Indonesia and East Timor during the reign of General Suharto (1965-1998).

Reviews for Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968
"Bradley R. Simpson's outstanding new book, Economists with Guns, provides chilling new evidence of American complicity with what the CIA itself referred to as 'the worst mass killings' since the era of Hitler and Stalin Simpson's book is highly significant in one other respect: it shows the perils of authoritarian models of economic development and the fallaciousness of the military ... Read more

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