Fire and the Full Moon reassesses Canada’s postwar foreign policy objectives and national image through the gulf between rhetoric and reality in Canada’s response to decolonization in Indonesia and the Global South.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Canada, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1945–492 The Golden Bridge: Canada and Indonesian Economic Development, 1950–633 Non-state Networks and Modernizing Elites in the Sukarno Years4 Canada, Alliance Politics, and the West New Guinea Dispute, 1957–635 Canada, Confrontation, and the End of Empire in Southeast Asia, 1963–666 A Pebble in Many Shoes: Development in Indonesia, Decolonization in East Timor, 1968–99ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Fire and the Full Moon is a most welcome addition to the literature of Canadian foreign policy. Strikingly well written and deeply researched, the book explores an area that Canadian diplomats often ignored or took for granted – relations with Indonesia, one of the largest countries in Asia, and, in the 1960s especially, the epicentre of the Cold War in Asia. Webster expands our understanding of Canadian foreign relations in the twentieth century and reminds us of the importance of the Third World in the definition of Canadian policy abroad.

Fire and the Full Moon is a most welcome addition to the literature of Canadian foreign policy. Strikingly well written and deeply researched, the book explores an area that Canadian diplomats often ignored or took for granted - relations with Indonesia, one of the largest countries in Asia, and, in the 1960s especially, the epicentre of the Cold War in Asia. Webster expands our understanding of Canadian foreign relations in the twentieth century and reminds us of the importance of the Third World in the definition of Canadian policy abroad. -- Robert Bothwell, author of Alliance and Illusion: Canada and the World, 1945-1984 Webster's detailed analysis of the perspectives of Canada's foreign policy-makers and politicians on Indonesia, and Asia more generally, forms the fascinating core of this book. Fire and the Full Moon is about the disjuncture (intended or not) between the rhetoric and self-image of Canada's foreign policy-makers and the reality of their actions. This is first-rate scholarship. -- Jacques Bertrand, author of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia