The renowned scholar exemplified intellectual passion and political engagement. Benedict Anderson. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

Anderson is best known for his 1983 book "Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism," whose controversial thesis is that nationalism is largely a modern concept rooted ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Benedict Anderson, a Cornell University scholar who became one of the most influential voices in the fields of nationalism and Southeast Asian studies, has died at the age of 79.

“The modern world has shown us sufficient examples of nations that have broken up because too many of their citizens have had shrivelled hearts and dwarfish minds.” — Benedict Anderson, Jakarta, 1999 ...

Benedict Anderson, one of the leading scholars of Southeast Asia, died in his sleep last week in Indonesia, during a sentimental visit. He was 79 and had at least half a dozen books in his head yet to ...

The child of late empire, who transformed the field of area studies, lived a life beyond boundaries. Benedict Anderson in Amsterdam, circa 1958.(Melanie Anderson) In 1967, Sudisman, the general ...

Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities was an unlikely academic bestseller that profoundly influenced a number of disciplines—from political science to comparative literature. When the book was ...

EAST JAVA, Indonesia: Asian studies scholar Benedict Anderson died in his sleep in Batu, Indonesia, yesterday. He was 79. Anderson is best known for his book Imagined Communities, published in 1983.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. It is a common scene among the community of Southeast Asia specialists in ...

The 35 years I spent as a professor of government at Cornell taught me two interesting lessons about US academia. The first was that theory, mirroring the style of late capitalism, has obsolescence ...