Jacques Bertrand

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Jacques Bertrand is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. For over fifteen years, he has worked on issues of ethnic politics, nationalism, democratization, as well as local politics in Indonesia. In his current research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the United States Institute of Peace, Professor Bertrand is working on ethnic minority interests and representation in Southeast Asia comparatively, with an emphasis on recently democratized countries of the region. He is the recipient of the 2003 William L. Holland prize for the outstanding article published in Pacific Affairs in 2002. He holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University (1995).

Selected Publications

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

“Legacies of the Authoritarian Past: Religious Violence in Indonesia’s Moluccan Islands”, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 75, no. 1, April 2002

“Peace and Conflict in the Southern Philippines: Why the 1996 Peace Agreement is Fragile”, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 73, no. 1, April 2000

"Growth and Democracy in Southeast Asia": Review article, Comparative Politics, April 1998.

“Business as Usual in Suharto’s Indonesia”, Asian Survey, vol. 37, no. 5, May 1997

"False Starts, Succession Crises, and Regime Transition: Flirting with Openness in Indonesia", Pacific Affairs, Vol. 69, no. 3, Fall 1996.

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