This course will examine the history of Indonesia's defence and security-related foreign policies, and activities since independence. Issues discussed will include: the colonial legacy and occupation, the indivisibility of internal and external threat; the absorption of West Papua, confrontation with Malaysia, and the invasion of East Timor; the strategy of Total People's Defence; maritime security; the history of relationships with China, the United States and Australia; and the imperatives of, and impediments to, regional security cooperation.