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State Formation and Conflicts in Sri Lanka
This book explores how the history of postcolonial Sri Lanka suggests a new paradigm for understanding state-formation as an ever-shifting and evolving process. The Sri Lankan state has formed under the pressure of multiple conflicts: around capitalist transition on the one hand, and the deteriorating relationship between the state and Tamil minority populations on the other. Sunil Bastian demonstrates the way these conflicts have overlapped, with international support for the introduction of neoliberal policies – from Japan, the West and institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF – helping to prop up a state engaged in armed ethnic conflict. State Formation and Conflict in Sri Lanka explores the role played by these two forces in the nation's recent economic crises.
Can Democracy be Designed?
Constitution-making for democracy has always been a highly political and contested process. It has never been more ambitious, or more difficult, than today as politicians and experts attempt to build democratic institutions that will foster peace and stability in countries torn by violent conflict. The extended investigation out of which this book has grown has ranged across three continents. It has examined such apparently intractable cases as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sri Lanka and Fiji, as well as apparent 'success stories' like South Africa, Ghana and Uganda. Three groups of questions are explored: * How and by whom were democratic institutions (re)designed? * How have they functioned in pract...
Assessing Participation
Participation, `Or` Participatory Development` Has Become One Of The Orthodoxies Of The Mainstream Discourse Of Development. The Papers Presented In This Volume Look At The Conceptual Basis Of The Notion Of Participatory Development As Well As Concrete Experiences Of Its Use In Specific Projects.
The Economic Agenda and the Peace Process
On the political aspects of economic assistance with UNF government in power and its ceasefire negotiations with LTTE in Sri Lanka between 2001-2004; study funded by various intergovernmental and international agencies.
