5/18/2023 0 Comments Vincent bevins the jakarta methodConsult some of the best revisionist and “post-revisionist” histories of the Cold War, and you will not find mention of Indonesia-or, for that matter, of Nigeria or Mozambique. Of course, both political-economic systems claimed spheres of influence that included large swaths of the global South, which quickly became a proving ground for competing ideologies-its inhabitants often unwilling pawns in complex geostrategic games. Historians of the Cold War have only recently begun to highlight the role of the third world in what has long been understood (at least in certain circles) as a distinctly bipolar conflict, one pitting American capitalism against Soviet communism.
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