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Title: Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968
Author: SIMPSON BRADLEY R.
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 19/01/2010
Imprint: STANFORD
Price: $67.00
Publishing status: Active
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 the 1960s on.
ISBN: 9780804771825
Weight: 499g
Dimension: 229mm X 152mm
Pages: 376