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Jan 2005, 320 pages
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Dec 2005, 327 pages
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Tracy Dahlby
is a former managing editor of Newsweek
International and an expert in the affairs of Asia, where
he lived for thirteen years, serving as Tokyo bureau chief for
the Washington Post and Newsweek. He is also a regular
contributor to National Geographic
magazine.
According to
Dahlby: In 2000, 75% of Indonesians surveyed in a major
poll expressed positive feelings toward the US. Three years
later, the figure stood at 15%. The causes for
this extraordinary swing are believed to be: perceived
American arrogance toward Muslims after 9/11, the invasion of
Iraq, and the sudden rise of a powerful Islamist movement in
Indonesia that proposes turning secular Indonesia into a
fundamentalist theocracy.
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