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Capital, Coercion, and Crime
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.
Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century
The only book length study to cover the Philippines after Marco's downfall, this key title thematically explores issues affecting this fascinating country, throughout the last century. Appealing to both the academic and non academic reader, topics covered include: national level electoral politics economic growth the Philippine Chinese law and order opposition the Left local and ethnic politics.
Republicanism, Communism, Islam
"This book provides a denationalized historical contextualization and comparative analysis of the Philippine, Indonesian, and Vietnamese revolutions. It emphasizes and evidences the importance of international circumstances and transoceanic and transcontinental cosmopolitan communities and connections-whether republican, Communist, Islamic, or otherwise- in enabling and impelling these three instances of revolutionary mobilization in Southeast Asia and in shaping their varying trajectories and outcomes"--
The Islamist Threat in Southeast Asia
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. In descriptive terms, this study suggests that such an alarmist picture is highly overdrawn, and it traces instead a pattern of marked decline, demobilization, and disentanglement from state power in recent years for Islamist forces in Southeast Asia. This trend is evident both in the disappointments experienced in recent years by previously ascendant Islamist forces in Indonesia and Malaysia, and in the diminished position of Muslim power brokers in southern Thailand and the Philippines after more than a decad...
Riots, Pogroms, Jihad
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 the global media spotlight as a site of Islamist terrorist violence. Yet the complexities of political and religious struggles in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world, remain little known and poorly understood in the West. In Riots, Pogroms, Jihad, John T. Sidel situates these terrorist bombings and other "jihadist" activities in Indonesia against the backdrop of earlier episodes of religious violence in the country, including...
Riots, Pogroms, Jihad
Indonesia : from ethnic conflict to Islamic terrorism? -- Situating "Islam" in Indonesia : the matrix of class relations -- Social transformation, 1965-1998 : konglomerat, kelas bawah, Islam -- Buildings on fire : church burning, riots, and election violence, 1995-1997 -- Crisis, conspiracy, conflagration : Jakarta, 1998 -- From lynchings to communal violence : pogroms, 1998-2001 -- Jihad and religious violence in Indonesia, 1995-2005.
State Erosion
State failure is a central challenge to international peace and security in the post–Cold War era. Yet theorizing on the causes of state failure remains surprisingly limited. In State Erosion, Lawrence P. Markowitz draws on his extensive fieldwork in two Central Asian republics—Tajikistan, where state institutions fragmented into a five-year civil war from 1992 through 1997, and Uzbekistan, which constructed one of the largest state security apparatuses in post-Soviet Eurasia—to advance a theory of state failure focused on unlootable resources, rent seeking, and unruly elites. In Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and other countries with low capital mobility—where resources cannot be extracted...
