Fibiger's well-researched book provides an incomparably detailed account of an all-important moment in the story of the Cold War in the Third World: the violent ending in the mid-1960s of President Sukarno's project of non-alignment and the founding of President Suharto's US-allied dictatorship. By revealing what the Cold War looked like from Jakarta, Fibiger re-orients our understanding of international relations history.
Mattias Fibiger is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. He is a historian of Asia's twentieth century specializing in political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.