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Professor John Sidel holds the Sir Patrick Gillam Chair in International Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he has also served as Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. He specializes in Southeast Asia, with extensive research focusing on Indonesia and the Philippines. His notable publications include 'Capital, Coercion, Crime: Bossism in the Philippines' (Stanford University Press, 1999), 'Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century: Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Trajectories' (co-authored with Eva-Lotta Hedman, Routledge, 2000), 'Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia' (Cornell University Press, 2006), and several others addressing various aspects of local politics and reform in the region. He teaches courses on local power, globalization, and Islam in international relations. Professor Sidel is committed to promoting policy reform in the Philippines and his work has been influential in shaping the discourse around political coalitions and advocacy campaigns.
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