Retrieve Economists With Guns: Authoritarian Development And U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968 Translated By Bradley R. Simpson Displayed In Manuscript

so it is two because some parts felt very dense and I really wanted to get through it, However, do not get the wrong idea, This is a great and researched book about U, SIndonesian Relations during thes, It is very revealing. The United States attempted to push their own model of modernization onto newly independent Indonesia, Long story short, when it appeared that Indonesia was becoming Socialist, U, S funneled money and training to the military in hopes that the army would oust the president, This actually happened and the army ended up murdering one million suspected political enemies Communists, all the while the U, S continued to support this bloodshed all in the name on anticommunism and modernization, Economists with Guns sets out to complete two main intellectual tasks, First, it uses declassified US diplomatic material to show convincingly that the United States knowingly abetted the Indonesian Army's massacres of the PKI the Indonesian Communist Party, which may have killed around,people.


Second, it shows how the intellectual work of modernization theorists including social scientists like Lucian Pye and Walt Rostow were used to justify the support of the Indonesian Army as a "prodevelopmental" force.
The one throughline in a frequently incoherent US foreign policy towards Indonesia was to support the army over all other parts of society, which culminated in the mass murder of the PKI and the rise of Suharto's kleptocratic dictatorship.


Perhaps this is nitpicky but I felt a little cheated by the title there aren't literally any economists with guns, More seriously, it feels like this book is trying to gesture towards deeper links between the intellectual and policymaking worlds like, say, with the Berkeley Mafia that it never quite explores in depth.
I would pick up Mandarins of the Future or Modernization as Ideology probably the second as an alternative, Vincent Bevins's Jakarta Method, which I believe leans heavily on this work, also covers many of the same events around the PKI massacres and is frankly more readable.
The promises of the New Order were certainly not reached for the people of the country but Western development forces could hardly contain their glee at the first sign of PKI executions.
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Fuhh! akhirnya buku yang termasuk kategori berat untuk saya selesai jugaa dibaca! Inti buku ini adalah Bagaimana invasi/campur tangan Amerika terhadap kebijakanyang dibuat oleh Indonesia mulai politik, sosial dan budaya.
saya melihat disini Amerika ingin menciptakan Indonesia sebagai negara yang pro terhadap liberalisme/kapitalisme dibandingkan harus jatuh kepada ke tangan komunisme, . Berbagai cara agar Indonesia lebih dekat dengan Pemerintah Amerika ketimbang Pemerintah RRC China ataupun Uni Soviet, . dan Amerika sangat paranoid ketika tahu Presiden RI pertama kita lebih condong ke kiri dibandingkan ke mereka, . saya berikandaribintang! bisabintang seharusnya kalo diceritakannya lebih menarik, . lamaagak membosankan sii menurutku bacanya : Economists with Guns is a definitive exploration into the economic, political, and discursive developments that drove American policy toward Indonesia in the nation's most turbulent and violent years.
Simpson makes several important contributions to the scholarship, expanding on and breaking open a previously limited set of assumptions about what drove America to support the military overthrow of Sukarno and the murder of sometoalleged communists in.


Rather than holding to the narrative of the domino theory and geopolitical concerns driving economic and political policy, Simpson argues the opposite casethat it was primarily American concerns about the world economy, Indonesian economic development, and the regional economic integration of Southeast Asia which lay at the heart of their support for military dictatorship in the country, as well as more broadly throughout the socalled third world.
Simpson charts a constellation of American financial and political actors, philanthropic organizations, Western international institutions, and social scientists who helped solidify a policy turn toward 'military modernization' in Indonesia in thes, ultimately culminating in mass murder and the formation of Suharto's New Order regime.


Simpson's arguments and evidence are convincing and thorough, This book is a necessary read for anyone interested in the turn toward military authoritarianism in the Westernaligned global south,

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Bung Karno, jangan melupakan sejarah,

Tapi, sejarah yang mana Apakah sejarah yang didiktekan pemerintah yang berkuasa dan dijejalkan dalam bukubuku pelajaran sekolah Atau sejarah dalam film "based on true story" yang ditayangkan di TVRI setahun sekali

Buku ini membuatku emosi, karena Indonesia mengalami nasib yang sama dengan negaranegara lain yang direcoki AS hanya karena tidak sesuai dengan kebijakan luar negeri mereka.
Bedanya hanya AS tidak terjun langsung seperti di Vietnam, Afghanistan, atau Irak,

Jadi berandaiandai, seperti apa jalan sejarah apabila Kennedy tidak tewas tertembak Apa yang akan terjadi bila kebetulan AS tidak keburu sibuk di Vietnam What if.
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membuat rasa tak berdaya saat ini Should be titled "diplomats with guns" since the economists only played a more prominent role in the lastof the book when much of the shooting is over.


Overall a nice American diplomatic history based on rigorous research, but I prefer to see development more than geopolitical bargain chips: what are the actual movement on the ground Beyond the allocation of aid moneys, a few grain and gun shipment, or sending officer to the US, I'm really keen to how the militaryled development have not worked in Sukarno era.
Guess it's my time to return to the archives, . . A great monograph of the New Cold War History wave, I will say that it is very U, S. centric in its sources and writing, But that doesn't make it a bad book, Just that if you are looking for the Indonesian voice in this story, you are not going to get too much of it from this book.
It is about how U, S. foreign policy towards Indonesia responded to political realities in Indonesia, There is some better scholarship out there for looking at the Indonesian side of things, but this book pairs nicely with some other recent scholarship on the political right of Asia during the Cold War, a sorely understudied topic in Cold War history in Asia.
Book takes a hard look at the effect of the US Cold War Policy of containment and how our best intentions can have an unsettling disruptive effect on foreign governments.


Indonesia's crime was not that they were pro communist it was that they were not anti communist, the US stance was if you are not with us you were against us, Indonesia tried to stay nonaligned after WW II, a sin by US Standards, Offering the first comprehensive history of U, S relations with Indonesia during thes, 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 militaryled development, Drawing on newly declassified archival material, Simpson examines how Americans and Indonesians imagined the country's development in thes and why they abandoned their democratic hopes in thes 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 thes on.


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