This article reinterprets the Indonesian invasion of East Timor as a ‘diplomatic counter-revolution’. Using the central archival records of the Suharto regime for the first time in English-language scholarship, it unearths a diplomatic campaign undertaken by agents of the New Order to secure international support for an Indonesian invasion of East Timor. This diplomatic offensive spanned Southeast Asia, non-aligned and Afro-Asian networks, Western capitals, international institutions and media circuits, and global capital markets. Its success tipped the balance of power in Jakarta away from advocates of restraint like Adam Malik and towards advocates of annexation like Ali Murtopo. The diplomacy behind Indonesia's invasion of East Timor reveals that the architecture of globalization, lauded by some scholars as inherently liberatory, was in fact agnostic, capable of being turned to counter-revolutionary purposes in addition to revolutionary ones. And it suggests that diplomacy itself had been counter-revolutionized, as geopolitical and geoeconomic change combined to make the international system, particularly the states of the Global South, far more hostile to state-making claims and transformative world-making projects.

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外交反革命：印度尼西亚外交与入侵东帝汶

本文将印度尼西亚对东帝汶的入侵重新解释为“外交反革命”。它首次在英语学术研究中使用苏哈托政权的中央档案记录，揭示了新秩序的代理人为确保国际社会支持印度尼西亚入侵东帝汶而开展的外交活动。这场外交攻势横跨东南亚、不结盟国家和亚非网络、西方国家首都、国际机构和媒体渠道，以及全球资本市场。它的成功使雅加达的权力平衡从亚当·马利克（Adam Malik）这样的克制倡导者转向阿里·穆托波（Ali Murtopo）这样的兼并倡导者。印度尼西亚入侵东帝汶背后的外交表明，被一些学者称赞为天生具有解放性的全球化架构，实际上是不可知论者，除了革命目的之外，还能够转向反革命目的。这表明外交本身已经发生了反革命，因为地缘政治和地缘经济的变化结合在一起，使国际体系，特别是全球南方国家，对建立国家的主张和改变世界的项目更加敌视。