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.
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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- Fibiger, Mattias. "Buying Time? The Vietnam War and Southeast Asia." In The Vietnam War in the Pacific World, edited by Brian Cuddy and Fredrik Logevall. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming. View Details
- 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
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- Fibiger, Mattias, Patrick Corelli, Hersh Desai, and Sophia Lien. Taiwan, Semiconductors, and a "New Cold War"? Harvard Business School Case 722-035, April 2022. View Details
- Fibiger, Mattias, and Soichiro Chiba. "Japan: Land of the Setting Sun?" Harvard Business School Case 721-007, January 2021. (Revised November 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 (2022 version)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 718-032, December 2017. (Revised January 2022.) View Details
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- 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
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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.
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