Government and Politics in Sri Lanka

Government and Politics in Sri Lanka
Author: A. R. Rajah
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2017-04-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351968009

This book analyses where Sri Lanka stands as a state that has in place liberal democratic state-institutions but exhibits the characteristics of an authoritarian state. Using Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, the author argues that Sri Lanka enacted racist legislations and perpetrated mass-atrocities on the Tamils as part of its biopolitics of institutionalising and securing a Sinhala-Buddhist ethnocratic state-order. The book also explores the ways that, apart from military action, power relations produce the effects of battle, and thus the way that peace can often become a means of waging war.

Catch-All Parties and Party-Voter Nexus in Sri Lanka

Catch-All Parties and Party-Voter Nexus in Sri Lanka
Author: Pradeep Peiris
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2021-11-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811641536

This book systematically maps the evolution of the party–voter nexus of the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). In doing so, it argues that these parties rely mostly on a complex Web of patronage-based networks to mobilise electorates. They employ informal and highly dynamic, loosely knit networks as their organisational structures at the local level. They mainly focus on mobilising voters through local political actors rather than maintaining clear party bases and membership schemes. The study highlights the salience of personalities at the national as well as local levels in forming electoral support for the parties. These individuals exploit their economic, social, and cultural capital to mobilise the most efficient network that would strengthen their party during elections. The study also analyses the emergence of two new coalition centres from within these traditional parties, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), and argues that these parties, though portraying themselves as new, have in fact retained the overall logic of the party–voter nexus by appropriating the organisational schemes and structures of their predecessors.

Liberal Peace In Question

Liberal Peace In Question
Author: Kristian Stokke
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0857286498

The present book uses Sri Lanka’s failed attempt at negotiating peace with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to examine the politics of state and market reforms towards liberal peace. Sri Lanka is seen as a critical case that demonstrates key characteristics and shortcomings of liberal peace, vividly demonstrated by internationally facilitated elite negotiations and donor-funded neoliberal development.

Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect

Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect
Author: Damien Kingsbury
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2012-03-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136639977

This book is about the issues and challenges facing the implementation of the Responsibility To Protect principle in the case of Sri Lanka, where the Tamil Tigers have been fighting to create a separate state.

Buddhism, Politics and the Limits of Law

Buddhism, Politics and the Limits of Law
Author: Benjamin Schonthal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107152232

Examining Sri Lanka's religious and legal pasts, this is the first extended study of Buddhism and constitutional law.

Sri Lanka At Crossroads: Geopolitical Challenges And National Interests

Sri Lanka At Crossroads: Geopolitical Challenges And National Interests
Author: Asanga Abeyagoonasekera
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9813276746

Having celebrated its 70th year of independence in 2018, Sri Lanka, a strategically-positioned island nation, now finds itself with the potential to be a super connector in fast-developing Asia. While carving out a place for itself in the international arena, Sri Lanka has simultaneously had to look inwards to recover and rebuild its potential, bruised by an era of colonial rule and nearly 30 years of a civil war, with two youth insurrections.This book examines these twin dimensions. First, how Sri Lanka is negotiating its international reach and the spheres of influence that extend from other Asian and world powers, and second, how the country is engaging in nation-building, from days of racial riots to ones of peace-building, reconciliation, more robust governance, and the development of cyber security.Written from the perspective of a Sri Lankan academic and the head of the national security think tank, this book offers insights into how the country has addressed its post-conflict as well as geopolitical challenges, navigated through domestic politics, and ramped up peace-building efforts, to now reach a junction where it can put its foot firmly on the road to prosperity in a new Asian world order.

Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History

Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History
Author: Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2017-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1911307843

The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a ‘crossroads’, a place defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean.Experts in the history, archaeology, literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE to c.1850 CE use Lankan material to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. They address these matters from their varied disciplinary perspectives and diverse array of sources, critically assessing concepts such as ethnicity, cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted and embraced at the same time. The individual chapters, and the volume as a whole, are a welcome addition to the history and historiography of Sri Lanka, as well as studies of the Indian Ocean region, kingship, colonialism, imperialism, and early modernity.

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka
Author: Russell R. Ross
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1990
Genre: Sri Lanka
ISBN: