ACADEMIC WORK IN PROGRESS 1. Late Development (new monograph in progress- 2023) FORTHCOMING IN 2022 1. Rendering Politics Legible in Development: Can the Anti- Politics Machine be Dismantled? (In press, New Political Economy - click for pre-publication draft) 2. Ethnic Domination and Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka (In press with Journal of Contemporary Asia - click for pre-publication draft) ACADEMIC WORK PUBLISHED 1. Illiberal Peacebuilding in Asia: A Comparative Overview, (2020: Conflict, Security & Development 20(1): Co-edited Special Issue on Illiberal Peacebuilding in Asia [co-authored with Claire Smith, Lars Waldorf and Gerard McCarthy].  DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2019.1705066 2. Parallel Governance and Political Order in Contested Territory: Evidence from the Indo-Naga Ceasefire. (2019: with Shalaka Thakur, Asian Security 15(3), pp.285-303. DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2018.1455185 3. Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in  Sri Lanka (2018: Cambridge University Press) 4. Ineptitude, Ignorance, or Intent? The Social Construction of Failure in  Development (2018 World Development 106, pp.238-247) DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.01.013 5. The Politics of Natural Disasters in Protracted Conflict: The 2014 Flood in Kashmir ( 2017 Oxford Development Studies 45(4), pp.424-442 ) - with Sameer Yasir. (pre-pub draft) - awarded the Sanjaya Lall prize for best article. 6. Sri Lanka Peacebuilding Context Analysis. Report submitted to United Nations Peacebuilding Office. Mimeo March 2016. (with Nishan De Mel) 7. Demonic Violence and Moral Panic in Post-War Sri Lanka (Journal of Asian Studies 74(4) August 2015), doi:10.1017/S0021911815000522) [pre-pub draft]   8. Neoliberalism as Concept, (Economy and Society 44(2) May 2015, doi: 10.1080/03085147.2015.1013356) [pre-pub draft] 9. Economic Development and the Executive Presidency in Sri Lanka  (Third World Quarterly 36(4) April 2015 doi:10.1080/01436597.2015.1024400 [pre-pub draft]		ORGANISED BY TOPIC DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Rendering Politics Legible in Development: Can the Anti- Politics Machine be Dismantled? (Forthcoming in New Political Economy - click for pre-publication draft) Ineptitude, Ignorance, or Intent? The Social Construction of Failure in  Development (2018 World Development 106, pp.238-247) DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.01.013 Neoliberalism as Concept, (Economy and Society 44(2) May 2015, doi: 10.1080/03085147.2015.1013356) [pre-pub draft] SRI LANKA Ethnic Domination and Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka (Forthcoming in Journal of Contemporary Asia - click for pre-publication draft) Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in  Sri Lanka (2018: Cambridge University Press) Sri Lanka Peacebuilding Context Analysis. Report submitted to United Nations Peacebuilding Office. Mimeo March 2016. (with Nishan De Mel) Economic Development and the Executive Presidency in Sri Lanka  (Third World Quarterly 36(4) April 2015 doi:10.1080/01436597.2015.1024400 [pre-pub draft]   Demonic Violence and Moral Panic in Post-War Sri Lanka (Journal of Asian Studies 74(4) August 2015), doi:10.1017/S0021911815000522) [pre-pub draft] INDIA Parallel Governance and Political Order in Contested Territory: Evidence from the Indo-Naga Ceasefire. (2019: with Shalaka Thakur, Asian Security 15(3), pp.285-303. DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2018.1455185 The Politics of Natural Disasters in Protracted Conflict: The 2014 Flood in Kashmir ( 2017 Oxford Development Studies 45(4), pp.424-442 ) - with Sameer Yasir. (pre-pub draft) - awarded the Sanjaya Lall prize for best article.
	PREVIOUS RESEARCH AND WRITING The Politics of Market Reform at a Time of Civil War: Military Fiscalism in Sri Lanka. Economic and Political Weekly. 44(49), pp.67-75. Dec 2011  (a slightly revised version of this has been published as a chapter in Aparna Sundar and Nandini Sundar (2014) Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development. Sage India. Ethnic Conflict and the State [in Desai and Potter (eds.) The Companion to Development Studies, 3rd edition Privatization, Private Sector Development and Horizontal Inequalities, in Langer et al (eds.) Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Horizontal Inequalities, Palgrave. 2011. Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Horiontal Inequalities (with F.Stewart and A.Langer). Palgrave. 2011. Sri Lanka: Strategic Policy Assessment 2011 [with J.Goodhand, D.Rampton, and N. De Mel]. DFID report. 2011 The politics of market reform at a time of ethnic conflict: Sri Lanka in the Jayawardena years, in Stokke, K. and J. Uyangoda (eds.), Liberal Peace in Question: Politics of State and Market Reforms in Sri Lanka. Anthem. 2011 Sectarian socialism: the politics of Sri Lanka's Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). Modern Asian Studies, 44 (03). pp. 567-602. 2010 ‘Business for Peace, or Peace for Business? The Role of Corporate Peace Activism in the Rise and Fall of Sri Lanka’s Peace Process, in Raviraman, K., and R. Lipschutz (eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility: Comparative Critiques. Palgrave. 2010 The Making of Sri Lanka’s Post-Conflict Economic Package and the Failure of the 2001-04 Peace Process, in Newman, E., R.Paris and O.Richmond, (eds.), New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding. United Nations University Press. 2009 Nationalism in the Era of Neo-Liberalism: The Changing Global Parameters of Self-Determination and Statehood, in Cheran, R. (ed.), Pathways of Dissent: Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka.  Sage. 2009. Globalization, Violent Conflict and Self-Determination. (edited volume with Valpy FitzGerald and Frances Stewart). Palgrave. 2006 The Global Dimensions of Conflict in Sri Lanka, in FitzGerald et al (eds.), 'Globalization, Violent Conflict and Self-Determination', Palgrave. 2006.