Benedict Anderson is a professor of International Studies at Cornell University, who is best known for his work titled Imagined Communities, in which he systematically describes the major factors contributing to the emergence of nationalism in the world during the past three centuries. He argues that the main causes of nationalism and the creation of an imagined community are the reduction of privileged access to particular script languages (e.g. Latin), the movement to abolish the ideas of divine rule and monarchy, as well as the emergence of printing press capitalism.
He is regarded as an authority on Indonesia.
Anderson's works include:
References
Benedict Anderson. Imagined Communities ISBN 0860913295