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Vincent Bevins

Vincent Bevins (born June 11, 1984) is an American journalist and writer. From 2011 to 2016, he worked as a foreign correspondent based in Brazil for the Los Angeles Times, after working previously in London for the Financial Times. In 2017 he moved to Jakarta and began covering Southeast Asia for The Washington Post, and in 2018 began writing a book about Cold War violence in Indonesia and Latin America. His work has mostly focused on international politics, the world economy, and global culture. In his 2020 book, The Jakarta Method, Bevins used recently declassified documents, archival search, and eyewitnesses reports to argue that the victory of the United States in the Cold War within the Third World was in part based on the extermination of unarmed leftists in the countries where the US involvement had happened, both by state forces, or by right-wing paramilitaries. The book title refers to the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66 by the Suharto regime.

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    Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World 
    by Vincent Bevins
    22 minutes read

    VINCENT BEVINS—The existence of a country called Indonesia within its current borders is unimaginable without Dutch imperialism. There is no natural dividing line between Indonesia and the islands that now comprise the Philippines, and there was no firm cultural or linguistic division either before the Europeans arrived. At the other end of the country, where Indonesia wraps around former British possessions, the boundaries make even less sense: most of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, for instance, lies to the west of Malaysia.

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