Jacques Bertrand is Associate Professor of Political Science and a member of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. For the last few years, his research has focused on the effects of democratisation on sub-state nationalist mobilisation in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. He is the author of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and co-editor of Multination States in Asia: Accommodation or Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2010).