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

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 development in Indonesia in the 1950s and why they abandoned their democratic hopes in th...