Shane Barter, PhD
Associate Professor of Comparative Politics
- Aliso Viejo CA UNITED STATES
Professor Barter focuses on Southeast Asian politics, Civilians in war, as well as autonomous areas and conflict resolution
Biography
My books include Civilian Strategy in Civil War: Insights from Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines (Palgrave 2014, available here), Explaining the Genetic Footprint of Catholic and Protestant Colonizers (Palgrave 2015, available here), and The Pacific Basin: An Introduction (co-edited with Michael Weiner, Routledge 2017).
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
Co-recipient Best Professor Award, Soka University of America
2013-2014
Best Paper Award, ISA-West Conference
2013
Education
University of British Columbia
Ph. D.
Political Science
University of British Columbia
M. A.
Comparative Politics
University of Victoria
B. A.
Comparative Politics and Southeast Asian History
Articles
The rebel state in society: governance and accommodation in Aceh, Indonesia
Rebel governance in civil warShane Joshua Barter
2015
Rebel organizations cannot be understood solely in terms of their coercive capacities. Many seek to displace the state and usurp its functions. How do rebel groups establish systems of governance? Applying Migdal's state in society approach, I show how rebel governance can evolve through alliances with societal forces...
Strife of the soil? Unsettling transmigrant conflicts in Indonesia
Journal of Southeast Asian StudiesShane Joshua Barter, Isabelle Côté
2015
Challenging conventional wisdom, this article argues that Indonesia — long home to both large-scale transmigration programmes and a range of conflicts — has not witnessed transmigrant conflicts. The vast majority of Indonesian transmigrants were resettled in parts of Sumatra which have remained peaceful. In some conflicts, the role of transmigration has been exaggerated. In others, interethnic violence has involved spontaneous migrants rather than state-led transmigrants...
‘Second-order’ ethnic minorities in Asian secessionist conflicts: problems and prospects
Asian EthnicityShane Joshua Barter
2015
This article provides some conceptual foundations for a special issue of Asian Ethnicity concerned with what we call ‘second-order minorities’. If secessionist conflicts involve minorities resisting abusive, assimilationist states, leading rebel groups to embark on their own nation-building efforts, how does this affect the minorities of aspiring secessionist nations? How do the minorities of secessionist groups respond to secessionism?...