The New Order’s Two Faces

Bradley Simpson, a young Princeton University historian, published a provocative study of American policy toward Indonesia from 1960-1968.

July 7, 2010

Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968
Author: Bradley R. Simpson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year: 2008
Number of pages: 376

TITLED Economists With Guns, the book covers the presidential administrations of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, in Indonesia the transition period between Guided Democracy and the New Order. Reading it has compelled me to reconsider the character of the

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