Professor John T. Sidel
John T. Sidel is the Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Before taking up this post at the LSE in 2004, Professor Sidel taught
for ten years at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),
University of London. He received his BA and MA from Yale University
(1988) and his PhD from Cornell University (1995).
Professor Sidel specializes in the study of Southeast Asia and has three main areas of thematic expertise and interest in the study of politics, as reflected in his research, writing, and teaching:
Local Politics: bosses, caciques, clans, mafias, warlords, and various forms of machine politics and monopolistic pratices impeding democratization at the local level.
Religion and Politics: inter-religious violence, religious persecution, religion and democratization, and various forms of mobilization in the name of Islam.
Nationalism and Transnational Forces: the role of transnational ideological currents and social movements, diasporic communities, and international conflicts and conjunctures, in the making of 'nationalist' revolutions.
Professor Sidel is a member of the editorial board of the journal South East Asia Research and the co-editor of the Contemporary Issues in the Asia Pacific book series at Stanford University Press. You can find further information about the Series at SUP and at the East-West Center, which sponsors the Series.
In
recent years, a steady stream of reportage and commentary has
spotlighted a dangerous "Islamist threat" in Southeast Asia. This
study, by contrast, offers a very different account. 
Organized
as a set of inter-related thematic essays on the Philippines rather
than a chronological account of the country's history, this book
addresses key topics which will be of interest to the academic and
non-academic reader.
This book explains the overall pattern of change in religious violence in Indonesia over a ten-year period in terms of the broader discursive, political,
and sociological contexts in which they unfolded.
This
book focuses on local bossism, a common political phenomenon where
local power brokers achieve monopolistic control over an area’s
coercive and economic resources. 
Reports commissioned by the 
Articles
published in several academic journals, including Asian Affairs, Comparative
Politics, Global Asia, Journal of Asian Studies, Indonesia, Philippine
Journal of Political Science, Public Policy and South East Asia
Research. 
