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Progressive politics keeping mind state formation agenda
Article in the Global Justice Journal giving a different interpretation on US sponsoring the Unhurt resolution in 2014. Full reference at the end of the article.
Introduction to a study on politics of foreign aid in Sri Lanka
Combining foreign aid as a part of foreign policy of donor countries and state formation process in Sri Lanka
An article focusing on political implications of the defeat of Ranil Wickremasinghe
The need for new ideas in social policy in Sri Lanka and the need to focus on economic inequality
By questioning how we understand the state, this article proses a new way of looking at what do we mean by state security. Post-colonilal Sri Lankan is taken as an example to explain.
Sunil Bastian is a political economist. His current research interests are politics of state formation and development of capitalism in Sri Lanka. He has published widely, and is the editor of Devolution and Development in Sri Lanka (1994). He has co-edited with Nicola Bastian, Assessing Participation, A debate from South Asia (1996), and with Robin Luckham, Can Democracy be Designed? The Politics of Institutional Choice in Conflict-torn Societies (2003) published by Zed Press, London. His most recent publication is The Politics of Foreign Aid in Sri Lanka. Promoting Markets and Supporting Peace (2007). He has been a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo and chairperson of the Centre for Poverty Analysis. He has more than two decades of consultancy experience with a range of donor agencies.
Assessing participation - A debate from south asia
(1997) Co-editor, Assessing Participation: A Debate from South Asia. New Delhi: ITDG/Konark Publishers.
Devolution and Development in Sri Lanka
(1994) Editor, Devolution and Development. New Delhi: Konark Publishers.
The politics of foreign Aid in Sri Lanka
(2007) Politics of foreign aid in Sri Lanka, Promoting markets and supporting peace. Colombo: International Centre for Ethnic Studies.
Can democracy be designed?
(2003) Co-editor, Can Democracy be Designed? London: Zed Books.
(2006) How Development Undermined Peace.
(2006) Sri Lanka’s International Straightjacket.
Current situation in Sri Lanka - Some observations (2021)
Concept of state formation and contemporary policy issues in Sri Lanka
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