The Act of Killing and the Dilemmas of History

Brad Simpson is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Connecticut. His first book, Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968 (Stanford 2008) explores the intersection of anti-Communism and development thinking in shaping U.S.-Indonesian relations. Brad is currently working on two books: a global history of the idea of self-determination in international relations and a history of Indonesian authoritarianism during the reign of General Suharto (1966-1998).