Sri Lanka : Government And Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sri Lanka : Government And Politics write by V. Grover. This book was released on 2002-09. Sri Lanka : Government And Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Government and Politics in Sri Lanka
Government and Politics in Sri Lanka - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Government and Politics in Sri Lanka write by A. R. Sriskanda Rajah. This book was released on 2017-04-21. Government and Politics in Sri Lanka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The island of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) was one of the few Asian colonies in which the British Empire experimented liberal state-building in the nineteenth century, and where many British colonial officials predicted that the independent state would become a liberal democratic success story. Sri Lanka has held on to much of the liberal democratic state-institutions left behind by the British Empire, including periodic elections. At the same time, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded in September 2015 that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Sri Lanka committed serious international crimes against the Tamils. Such accusations are usually levelled against authoritarian states; it is unusual for a democracy to face such charges. 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. The author provides fresh insights into Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government that it has in place. A novel approach to analysing Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government, this book will be of interests to researchers in the field of Political Science, Asian Politics and International Relations.
Dynamics of Tamil Nadu Politics in Sri Lankan Ethnicity
Dynamics of Tamil Nadu Politics in Sri Lankan Ethnicity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dynamics of Tamil Nadu Politics in Sri Lankan Ethnicity write by G. Palanithurai. This book was released on 1993. Dynamics of Tamil Nadu Politics in Sri Lankan Ethnicity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tamil Nadu has been playing its legitimate role in the inter-government relationship on the Tamil issues. The magnitude of the state politics in the problems of Sri Lankan Tamils has reached its Zenith during the past one decade as a result of the eruption of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka. Since Tamil Polity has been fully dominated by ethnic political parts, each one has been trying its level best to project itself as the Vanguard of Tamil Nationalism. This book traces the approaches of the political parties and especially ethnic political parties towards the Sri Lankan Tamil issues. It also analyses to what extent the pressure extended by the ethnic political parties has been taken into account in foreign policy making of Indian Government during different periods. Significantly this work touches a very important aspect that to what extent the support extended by the political parties to help themselves to establish firm roots in provincial polity. This study sheds light on the ambiguous stand of the political parties in Tamil Nadu over this issue which ultimately has weakened the cause of the Tamils and mislead the Indian Government which adopted a tough stand without heeding to the plea of the majority of the Sri Lankan Tamils.
The Sri Lankan Political Scene
The Sri Lankan Political Scene - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sri Lankan Political Scene write by W. A. Wiswa Warnapala. This book was released on 1993. The Sri Lankan Political Scene available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Politics of Conflict and Peace in Sri Lanka
Politics of Conflict and Peace in Sri Lanka - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics of Conflict and Peace in Sri Lanka write by P. Sahadevan. This book was released on 2006. Politics of Conflict and Peace in Sri Lanka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book details the manner in which Sri Lanka has missed numerous opportunities to secure peace between its two principal ethnic communities and how the intractable ethnic conflict has placed the country in a dire state. It provides an institutionalist explanation to the conflict, examines the Sinhalese-Tamil divisions that were exacerbated due to linguistic nationalism, and evaluates the extent to which the island’s political structure encouraged ethnocentrism. It also makes clear how such ethnocentrism has contributed to illiberal democracy and political decay. Furthermore, the book analyzes how both military and political strategies have failed to end the ethnic war and provides a structural explanation for the LTTE’s resistance to accept a negotiated peace, which would require the group to step back from its stated goal of creating a separate state. India’s shifting policy vis-à-vis the conflict is also examined in the context of its contrasting responses and postures—intervention in the 1980s and non-intervention currently.
