Rethinking Sovereignty and Stateness in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Historical Perspective

John T. Sidel is the Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines (Stanford University Press, 1999); Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2006); The Islamist Threat in Southeast Asia: A Reassessment (East-West Center, 2007); and Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, forthcoming). He is coauthor, with Eva-Lotta Hedman, of Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century: Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Trajectories (Routledge, 2000) and, with Jaime Faustino, Thinking and Working Politically in Development: Coalitions for Change in the Philippines (The Asia Foundation, 2020).