Sidel, John T.

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  • Sidel, John (2025). Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the untold story of the 1960s. History Today, 75(10), 104 - 105.
  • Sidel, John (2024). The drama of dictatorship: martial law and the communist parties of the Philippines, by Joseph Scalice. Journal of Military History, 88(3), 861 - 863.
  • Sidel, John T. (2023). Dynastic democracy: political families in Thailand by Yoshinori Nishizaki, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2022, 304 pp., US$79.95; £79.99 (hbk), ISBN 9780299338305. South East Asia Research, 31(1), 110 - 114. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2216975
  • Sidel, John T. (2021). Republicanism, communism, Islam: cosmopolitan origins of revolution in Southeast Asia. Cornell University Press.
  • Sidel, John T., Faustino, Jaime (2020). Thinking and working politically in development: coalitions for change in the Philippines. Asia Foundation. [In Press]
  • Sidel, John T. (2018). Coalitions for change in the Philippines: legacies, linkages, lessons. Asia Foundation.
  • Sidel, John T. (2017). Promoting land governance reform in the Philippines, 2000-2017: long-term linkages, legacies, and lessons. (CfC Research Paper Series 2). Coalitions for Change.
  • Sidel, John T. (2017). Creative development aid modalities: alleviating school congestion in the Philippines. (CfC Research Paper Series 1). Coalitions for Change.
  • O’Keefe, Michael, Sidel, John T., Marquette, Heather, Roche, Chris, Hudson, David, Dasandi, Niheer (2014). Using action research and learning for politically informed programming. (Research papers 29). Developmental Leadership Program.
  • Sidel, John T. (2014). Achieving reforms in oligarchical democracies: the role of leadership and coalitions in the Philippines. (Research papers 27). Developmental Leadership Program.
  • Sidel, John T. (2014). Dangers and demon(izer)s of democratization in Egypt: through an Indonesian glass, darkly. In Gerges, F. A. (Ed.), The New Middle East: Protest and Revolution in the Arab World (pp. 226-256). Cambridge University Press.
  • Sidel, John T. (2014). The Philippines in 2013: disappointment, disgrace, disaster. Asian Survey, 54(1), 64-70. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2014.54.1.64
  • Sidel, John T. (2014). Economic foundations of subnational authoritarianism: insights and evidence from qualitative and quantitative research. Democratization, 21(1), 161-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2012.725725
  • Sidel, John T. (2013). Nationalism in post-independence Southeast Asia: a comparative analysis. In The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism (pp. 472-494). Oxford University Press.
  • Sidel, John T. (2009). Walking in the shadow of the big man: Junstiniano Montano and failed dynasty building in Cavite 1935-1972. In McCoy, A. W. (Ed.), An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines (pp. 109 - 162). University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Sidel, John T. (2008). The Islamist threat in Southeast Asia: much ado about nothing? Asian Affairs, 16(3), 339-351. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068370802341032
  • Sidel, John T. (2008). Social origins of dictatorship and democracy revisited: colonial state and Chinese immigrant in the making of modern Southeast Asia. Comparative Politics, 40(2), 127-147.
  • Sidel, John T. (2008). Jihad and the specter of transnational Islam in Southeast Asia: a comparative historical perspective. In Tagliacozzo, E. (Ed.), Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue Durée (pp. 275-318). Stanford University Press.
  • Sidel, John T. (2008). The manifold meanings of displacement: explaining inter-religious violence, 1999-2001. In Hedman, E. E. (Ed.), Conflict, Violence, and Displacement in Indonesia (pp. 29-59). Cornell University. Southeast Asia Program. https://doi.org/SOSEA-45
  • Sidel, John T. (2007). It's not getting worse: terrorism is declining in Asia. Global Asia, 2(3), 41-49.
  • Sidel, John T. (2007). From Russia with love? Indonesia, 84, 161-172.
  • Sidel, John T. (2007). The Islamist threat in Southeast Asia: a reassessment. East-West Center Washington.
  • Sidel, John T. (2007). On the 'anxiety of incompleteness': a post-structuralist approach to religious violence in Indonesia. South East Asia Research, 15(2), 133-212.
  • Sidel, John T. (2007). Indonesia: migrants, migrant workers, refugees, and the new citizenship law. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
  • Sidel, John T. (2006). Riots, pogroms, jihad: religious violence in Indonesia. Cornell University Press.
  • Sidel, John T. (2004). Bossism and democracy in the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia: towards an alternative framework for the study of 'local strongmen'. In Harriss, J., Stokke, K. & Tornquist, O. (Eds.), Politicising Democracy: the New Local Politics of Democratisation (pp. 51-74). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Sidel, John T. (2003). Liberalism, communism, islam: transnational motors of 'nationalist' struggles in Southeast Asia. The Newsletter, (32), p. 23.
  • Sidel, John T. (2003). Review of "Surabaya, city of work: a socioeconomic history, 1900-2000". Indonesia, 76, 205-209.
  • Sidel, John T. (2003). Other schools, other pilgrimages, other dreams: the making and unmaking of 'jihad' in Southeast Asia. In Siegel, J. T. & Kahin, A. R. (Eds.), Southeast Asia Over Three Generations: Essays Presented to Benedict R. O'g. Anderson (pp. 347-382). Cornell University. Southeast Asia Program. https://doi.org/SOSEA-36
  • Sidel, John T. (2002). Indonesia: internal and external displacement, November 2001 - August 2002. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
  • Sidel, John T. (2001). Indonesia: the limits of democratization and decentralization, January 2000 - October 2001. (WriteNet papers 04/2001). United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
  • Sidel, John T. (2001). 'It takes a madrasah'?: Habermas meets Bourdieu in Indonesia. South East Asia Research, 9(1), 109-122.
  • Sidel, John T. (2001). Response to Ileto: or, why I am not an Orientalist. Philippine Political Science Journal, 23(1), 109-122.
  • Sidel, John T. (2001). Riots, church burnings, conspiracies. In Wessel, I. & Wimhofer, G. (Eds.), Violence in Indonesia (pp. 64-81). Abera Verlag.
  • Hedman, Eva-Lotta E., Sidel, John T. (2000). Philippine politics and society in the twentieth century: colonial legacies, post-colonial trajectories. Routledge.
  • Sidel, John T. (2000). Filipino gangsters in film, legend and history: two biographical case studies from Cebu. In McCoy, A. W. (Ed.), Lives at the Margin: Biography of Filipinos Obscure, Ordinary, and Heroic (pp. 149-191). University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
  • Sidel, John T. (1999). Indonesia update: trends toward consolidation, threats of disintegration (January-December 1999). (WriteNet papers 18/1999). United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
  • Sidel, John T. (1999). Capital, coercion, and crime: bossism in the Philippines. Stanford University Press.
  • Sidel, John T. (1999). The usual suspects: Nardong Putik, Don Pepe Oyson, and Robin Hood. In Rafael, V. L. (Ed.), Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam (pp. 70-94). Cornell University. Southeast Asia Program. https://doi.org/SOSEA-25
  • Sidel, John T. (1998). Indonesia update: transition and its discontents, July - November 1998. (WriteNet papers). United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
  • Sidel, John T. (1998). Macet total: logics of circulation and accumulation in the demise of Indonesia's new order. Indonesia, 66, 159-194.
  • Sidel, John T. (1998). Murder Inc., Cavite: capitalist development and political gangsterism in a Philippine province. In Trocki, C. A. (Ed.), Gangsters, Democracy, and the State in Southeast Asia (pp. 55-80). Cornell University. Southeast Asia Program. https://doi.org/SEAPS-17
  • Sidel, John T. (1998). Crisis and transition, catastrophe and progress. Update to 'Indonesia: economic, social and political dimensions of the current crisis'. (WriteNet papers). United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
  • Sidel, John T. (1998). Take the money and run? 'personality' politics in the post-Marcos Philippines. Public Policy Journal, 2(3), 27-38.
  • Sidel, John T. (1998). Indonesia: economic, social and political dimensions of the current crisis. (WriteNet papers). United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
  • Sidel, John T. (1998). The underside of progress: land, labor, and violence in two Philippine growth zones, 1985-1995. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 30(1), 3-12.
  • Sidel, John T. (1997). Philippine politics in town, district, and province: bossism in Cavite and Cebu. Journal of Asian Studies, 57(4), 947-966.
  • Sidel, John T. (1997). Dark play: notes on a Balinese massacre. Indonesia, 63, 187-194.
  • Sidel, John T. (1997). Rewind, pause, fast forward: viewing the ongoing political transition in Indonesia; 1996-97. (EIAS briefing paper series 97/01). European Institute for Asian Studies.
  • Sidel, John T. (1996). Siam and its twin?: democratisation and bossism in contemporary Thailand and the Philippines. IDS Bulletin, 27(2), 36-52.
  • Sidel, John T. (1995). On the waterfront: labour racketeering in the Port of Cebu. South East Asia Research, 3(1), 3-17.
  • Sidel, John T. (1995). The Philippines: the languages of legitimation. In Alagappa, M. (Ed.), Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: the Quest for Moral Authority (pp. 136-169). Stanford University Press.
  • Sidel, John T. (1993). Walking in the shadow of the big man: Junstiniano Montano and failed dynasty building in Cavite 1935-1972. In McCoy, A. W. (Ed.), An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines (pp. 109 - 161). University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
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  • Sidel, John T. (17 October 2024) Notes from the Director's chair. LSE Southeast Asia Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Sidel, John T. (9 August 2024) Jim Scott in memoriam, Southeast Asian studies in perpetuum. LSE Southeast Asia Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Sidel, John T. (2024). The sovereign trickster: death and laughter in the age of Duterte. Journal of Asian Studies, 83(2), 505 - 507. https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-11057960 picture_as_pdf
  • Sidel, John T. (14 September 2023) Southeast Asian Studies at the LSE: historical legacies, enduring structures, new directions. LSE Southeast Asia Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Sidel, John T. (2020). Rethinking sovereignty and stateness in Southeast Asia: a comparative historical perspective. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 40(3), 483 – 487. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-8747458 picture_as_pdf
  • Sidel, John T. (2020). Averting “carmageddon” through reform? An eco-systemic analysis of traffic congestion and transportation policy gridlock in metro manila. Critical Asian Studies, 52(3), 378 - 402. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2020.1793681 picture_as_pdf
  • Sidel, John T. (21 May 2020) John T. Sidel what are the challenges faced by urban transport in the Global South? LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Sidel, John T. (2015). Primitive accumulation and ‘progress’ in Southeast Asia: the diverse legacies of a common(s) tragedy. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 3(01), 5-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/trn.2014.12 picture_as_pdf
  • Sidel, John T. (2012). From cyberjihad to Habermas: understanding Muslim identity and resistance online.
  • Sidel, John T. (2012). The fate of nationalism in the new states: Southeast Asia in comparative historical perspective. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 54(01), 114-144. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417511000612 picture_as_pdf