Less is More: US Engagement with Indonesia, 1945-2021

Timo Kivimäki

Less is More: US Engagement with Indonesia, 1945-2021

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Abstract

This chapter aims at offering an overview of how the US engages Indonesia. The intention is not just to offer a novel interpretation on this relationship, but also to build on the existing interpretations of the US approach to Indonesia. The chapter will proceed chronologically but show that some elements of US and Indonesian foreign policy approaches are permanent. Indonesia and the United States have common interests and only by working on the basis of such common interests can US engagement produce results. Focusing on issues areas where such common interests do not exist and on things that require US power to change Indonesia’s ways, tends to be counterproductive.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of US Policy in the Indo-Pacific
Editors	Oliver Turner, Nicola Nymalm, Wali Aslam
Publisher	Routledge
Publication status	Published - 30 Dec 2022

Keywords

Indonesia
United States
Southeast Asia
Security
Geopolitics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Political Science and International Relations

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Routledge Handbook of US Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pacific on 30 Dec 2022, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9780367863142
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Less is More: US Engagement with Indonesia, 1945-2021

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