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Book SynopsisEconomists 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.
Trade Review"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 modernization theories promoted by Kennedy-era intellectuals, which continue to hold some credence among foreign policy elites today." * History News Network *
"Based upon a remarkable wealth of recently declassified U.S. government documents, this meticulous study permits both new insights into well-known events and revelations of unknown events. A major contribution to the study of Indonesia's postcolonial history and to the field of U.S. Cold War diplomacy, it will remain a standard reference work for many years to come." -- John Roosa
"Simpson's book constitutes an important addition to our knowledge of the global Cold War. It is based on meticulous archival research, frames its detailed finding within a larger argument and is written in a direct and accessible prose style. This text will be of interest to scholars and students of U.S. foreign policy, the international Cold War, and the modern history of Southeast Asia and Indonesia." -- Edward Aspinall
"The author successfully applies the ideas of modernization theory to the Indonesian case, tracing America's ideologically informed notions of Indonesia's place in the regional and world economy. This comprehensive work offers a valuable new perspective." -- Matthew Jones * University of Nottingham *
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Imagining Indonesian Development 000 Chapter 2 The Kennedy Administration Confronts Indonesia 000 Chapter 3 Developing a Counterinsurgency State: The Kennedy Administration and Military Modernization in Indonesia 000 Chapter 4 The Road from Stabilization to Confrontation 000 Chapter 5 From High Hopes to Low Profile: The Johnson Administration Confronts Indonesia 000 Chapter 6 Indonesia's Year of Living Dangerously 000 Chapter 7 The September 30th Movement and the Destruction of the PKI 000 Chapter 8 Economists with Guns: Washington Embraces the New Order 000 Conclusion 000 Abbreviations 000 Notes 000 Works Cited 000 Index 000
