Böcker av John T. Sidel

The only book length study to cover the Philippines after downfall, this key title thematically explores issues affecting this fascinating country, throughout the last century.

Traces a pattern of marked decline, demobilization, and disentanglement from state power for Islamist forces in Southeast Asia. This study provides a different explanation for the "Islamist threat" in Southeast Asia, and also suggests different policy implications from those offered by specialists on terrorism working on the region.

Drawing on in-depth research in the Philippines, this book reveals how local forms of political and economic monopoly may thrive under conditions of democracy and capitalist development.

In October 2002 a bomb blast in a Balinese nightclub killed more than two hundred people, many of them young Australian tourists. This event and subsequent attacks on foreign targets in Bali and Jakarta in 2003, 2004, and 2005 brought Indonesia into...