Anderson "left a deep imprint on Southeast Asian studies, shaping the way power was understood in Indonesian society, placing Thailand not alongside 'uncolonized' Japan but with the semi-colonies of the unfederated Malay states, and tracing the intimacy between Philippine cacique democracy and the American Guilded Age," according to Filipino Professor Patricio Abinales, who's now based at the School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.