{"product_id":"9781921825019","title":"Quarterly Essay 2 Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy","description":"In the second Quarterly Essay, John Birmingham takes apart the folly of twenty-five years of Australian policy on East Timor. How did Gough Whitlam and Richard Woolcott in 1975 saddle this country with a policy that was bound to lead to the intervention of 1999? Why were shrewder voices ignored and why did we persist with an unworkable model? Where does this leave us with an Indonesia still dominated by the old power elites? And what was the tragedy like for the people of East Timor? John Birmingham has written a passionate narrative history of the East Timor question which never turns away from the slaughter and sorrow of the people who suffered it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppeasing Jakarta\u003c\/i\u003e is an analysis of what happened in 1975 when we condoned Indonesia's intervention and what happened in 1999 when we stood against it ...John Birmingham is deadly in his disdain for the way a defunct paradigm...was clung to like a dogma...but [this] is also an essay about the human cost...written in flowing colours with a strong narrative streak and a swashbuckling power of dispatch... —Peter Craven, Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a policy of wilful blindness, made possible only because we were always somewhere else when the trigger was pulled.\"\" —John Birmingham, \u003ci\u003eAppeasing Jakarta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Birmingham’s books include the cult memoir \u003ci\u003eHe Died with a Felafel in His Hand, Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney\u003c\/i\u003e and the fiction series \u003ci\u003eWeapons of Choice\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of two Quarterly Essays, \u003ci\u003eAppeasing Jakarta: Australia’s Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Time for War: Australia as a Military Power\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a regular contributor to the \u003ci\u003eMonthly.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Black Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182778892528,"sku":"9781921825019","price":17.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921825019_p0.jpg?v=1763632442","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921825019","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}