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Mattias E. Fibiger

Mattias E. Fibiger

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

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Mattias Fibiger is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy (BGIE) unit. He teaches BGIE in the MBA required curriculum. 

Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and diplomacy in Southeast Asia. His most recent or forthcoming essays appear in Diplomatic History, Modern Asian Studies, and Diplomacy & Statecraft. Professor Fibiger's current book manuscript is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World. It examines how the Indonesian dictator Suharto used the global Cold War to wage his own domestic and regional Cold Wars, constructing a counterrevolutionary authoritarian regime in Indonesia and then promoting authoritarian reaction elsewhere in Southeast Asia.

Professor Fibiger received his B.A. in history from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his Ph.D. in history from Cornell University. Before joining the faculty at HBS, he was a visiting researcher at Universitas Indonesia.
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Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth century international history, focusing on political economy and foreign policy in Southeast Asia.

Professor Fibiger's current book project is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World. It examines how the Indonesian dictator Suharto used the global Cold War to wage his own domestic and regional Cold Wars, first by constructing a developmental authoritarian regime in Indonesia and then by projecting his developmental authoritarian vision outward into Southeast Asia. Based on archival research in eight countries and four languages, including the central archival records of the Suharto regime, the book recasts authoritarianism and development as international and transnational phenomena.

Professor Fibiger has articles, book chapters, and working papers on a diverse array of topics, including the origins of neoconservatism, the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, the Mayaguez crisis of 1975, and the effects of the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia.
Keywords: Authoritarianism; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; Foreign Direct Investment; Foreign Policy; International Relations; Southeast Asia; United States; History; International Relations; National Security; Government And Politics; Development Economics; Southeast Asia; United States; Indonesia; Philippines; Malaysia; Singapore
Mattias Fibiger is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy (BGIE) unit. He teaches BGIE in the MBA required curriculum. 

Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and diplomacy in Southeast Asia. His most recent or forthcoming essays appear in Diplomatic History, Modern Asian Studies, and Diplomacy & Statecraft. Professor Fibiger's current book manuscript is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World. It examines how the Indonesian dictator Suharto used the global Cold War to wage his own domestic and regional Cold Wars, constructing a counterrevolutionary authoritarian regime in Indonesia and then promoting authoritarian reaction elsewhere in Southeast Asia.

Professor Fibiger received his B.A. in history from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his Ph.D. in history from Cornell University. Before joining the faculty at HBS, he was a visiting researcher at Universitas Indonesia.
Journal Articles
  • Fibiger, Mattias. "The Nixon Doctrine and the Making of Authoritarian Regimes in Island Southeast Asia." Diplomatic History (forthcoming). View Details
  • Fibiger, Mattias. "A Diplomatic Counterrevolution: Indonesian Diplomacy and the Invasion of East Timor." Modern Asian Studies 55, no. 2 (March 2021): 587–628. View Details
  • Fibiger, Mattias. "Remaking the Imperial Presidency: The Mayaguez Incident of 1975 and the Contradictions of Credibility." Diplomacy & Statecraft 31, no. 1 (2020): 118–142. View Details
  • Fibiger, Mattias. "Off the Record." The Appendix 1, no. 4 (October 2013). View Details
Book Chapters
  • Fibiger, Mattias. "The Pivot: Neoconservatives, the Philippines, and the Democracy Agenda." In The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion, edited by Robert Pee and William Michael Schmidli, 209–230. Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. View Details
Cases and Teaching Materials
  • Fibiger, Mattias, and Soichiro Chiba. "Japan: Land of the Setting Sun?" Harvard Business School Case 721-007, January 2021. (Revised February 2021.) View Details
  • Fibiger, Mattias. "Indonesia at a Crossroads." Harvard Business School Case 721-028, December 2020. View Details
  • Cavallo, Alberto, Kristin Fabbe, Mattias Fibiger, Jeremy Friedman, Reshmaan Hussam, Vincent Pons, and Matthew Weinzierl. "The BGIE Twenty (2021 version)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 718-032, December 2017. (Revised December 2020.) View Details
Other Publications and Materials
  • Fibiger, Mattias. Review of "The Cold War in Southeast Asia: An Interpretive History," by Ang Cheng Guan. H-Diplo 20, no. 39 (May 20, 2019): 9–12. View Details
  • Fibiger, Mattias. Review of "A Wide Anticommunist Arc: Britain, ASEAN, and Nixon's Triangular Diplomacy" by Wen-Qing Ngoei. H-Diplo, no. 778 (June 26, 2018). View Details
  • Fibiger, Mattias. "Conspiracy as Foreign Policy: A Review of Greg Poulgrain's The Incubus of Intervention: Conflicting Indonesia Strategies of John F. Kennedy and Allen Dulles." Inside Indonesia 123 (January–March 2016). View Details
Research Summary
Overview
Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth century international history, focusing on political economy and foreign policy in Southeast Asia.

Professor Fibiger's current book project is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World. It examines how the Indonesian dictator Suharto used the global Cold War to wage his own domestic and regional Cold Wars, first by constructing a developmental authoritarian regime in Indonesia and then by projecting his developmental authoritarian vision outward into Southeast Asia. Based on archival research in eight countries and four languages, including the central archival records of the Suharto regime, the book recasts authoritarianism and development as international and transnational phenomena.

Professor Fibiger has articles, book chapters, and working papers on a diverse array of topics, including the origins of neoconservatism, the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, the Mayaguez crisis of 1975, and the effects of the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia.
Keywords: Authoritarianism; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; Foreign Direct Investment; Foreign Policy; International Relations; Southeast Asia; United States; History; International Relations; National Security; Government And Politics; Development Economics; Southeast Asia; United States; Indonesia; Philippines; Malaysia; Singapore
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