NEIL DeVOTTA

Publications: Books An Introduction to South Asian , ed (London: Routledge): Forthcoming in 2015.

From Civil War to Soft Authoritarianism: Ethnonationalism and Democratic Regression in Sri Lanka (London: Routledge): Under Contract.

Understanding Contemporary India, ed., 2nd ed (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010). Politics of Conflict and Peace in Sri Lanka, Co-authored with P. Sahadevan (New Delhi: Manak Publications, 2006).

Blowback: Linguistic , Institutional Decay, and in Sri Lanka (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004).

Understanding Contemporary India, Co-Editor with Sumit Ganguly (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003).

Publications: Books (Nonacademic) Benedictine Memoirs, ed (Talangama, Sri Lanka: JF&I Printers, 2005).

Publications: Monographs Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist : Implications for Politics and Conflict Resolution in Sri Lanka, Policy Studies 40 (Washington D. C.: East-West Center, 2007).

Uncivil Groups, Unsocial Capital: Wither Civil Society and Liberal in Sri Lanka, Middlebury College Working Paper Series #8 (Middlebury, VT: Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, 2003). Publications: Articles “From Counterterrorism to Soft-Authoritarianism: The Case of Sri Lanka.” In Critical Perspectives on Counter-terrorism, eds., Michael Lister and Lee Jarvis (London: Routledge, 2015): 210-30.

“Neoliberalism and Illiberalism in .” In Neoliberal State and Its Challenges, eds., Bhupen Sarmah and Joydeep Baruah (Delhi: Aakar Books, 2014): 21-39.

“Parties, Political Decay, and Democratic Regression in Sri Lanka.” Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 52, no. 1 (January 2014): 139-65.

“Sri Lanka’s Ongoing Shift to Authoritarianism.” Asia Pacific Bulletin No. 201 (Washington,D. C.: East- West Center, 2013): 1-2.

“U.S. Relations with India.” In The Oxford Companion to American Politics, ed., David Coates, Vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012): 528-37.

”Kashmir.” In The Oxford Companion to American Politics, ed., David CoatesVol. 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012): 33-36.

“Sri Lanka: From Turmoil to Dynasty.” Journal of Democracy 22, no. 2 (April 2011): 130-44.

“From Civil War to Soft Authoritarianism: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective.” Global Change, Peace, and Security 22, no. 3 (October 2010): 331-43.

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“Introduction.” In Understanding Contemporary India, 2nd ed., Neil DeVotta (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010): 1-21.

“International Relations.” In Understanding Contemporary India, 2nd ed., Neil DeVotta (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010): 95-122.

“Trends and Prospects.” In Understanding Contemporary India, 2nd ed., Neil DeVotta (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010): 293-309.

“Back to the Future: Sri Lanka’s 1956 Election, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, and the Consolidation of .” In Sri Lanka: 60 Years of “Independence” and Beyond, ed., Ana Pararajasingham (Emmenbrucke, : Center for Just Peace and Security, 2010): 160-75.

“Sri Lanka’s Civil War.” In The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies, eds., Sumit Ganguly, Andrew Scobell and Joseph Chinyong Liow (London: Routledge, 2010): 158-71. “When Individuals, States, and Systems Collide: India’s Foreign Policy toward Sri Lanka.” In India’s Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect, ed., Sumit Ganguly (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010): 32-61.

“Politics and Governance in Post-Independence Sri Lanka.” In Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, ed., Paul R. Brass (New York: Routledge, 2010): 118-30. “Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Lost Quest for in Sri Lanka.” Asian Survey 49, no. 6 (November/December 2009): 1021-51.

“Sri Lanka at Sixty: A Legacy of and Degeneration.” Economic and Political Weekly, January 31, 2009, pp. 46-53.

“Jathika Hela Urumaya and Ethno-Religious Politics in Sri Lanka.” Co-authored with Jason Stone. Pacific Affairs 81, no. 1 (Spring 2008): pp. 31-51.

Terrorism and Democratic Regression in Sri Lanka.” Economic and Political Weekly, April 5, 2008, pp. 15-17.

“Explaining Political and Societal Violence in Sri Lanka.” In Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Conflict in the Global Context, eds., Laksiri Fernando and Shermal Wijewardene (Colombo: University of Colombo Faculty of Graduate Studies, 2006): pp. 113-26.

“Civil Society and Non-Governmental Organizations in Sri Lanka: Peacemakers or Parasites?” Civil Wars 7, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 171-82.

“Sri Lanka in 2004: Enduring Political Decay and a Failing Peace Process.” Asian Survey 45, no. 1 (January/February 2005): 98-104.

“From Ethnic Outbidding to Ethnic Conflict: The Institutional Bases for Sri Lanka’s Separatist War.” and Nationalism 11, no. 1 (January 2005): 141-59.

“Sri Lanka: Ethnic Domination, Violence, and Illiberal Democracy.” In Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space, ed., Muthiah Alagappa (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004): 292-323.

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“ and Indo-Lanka Relations.” South Asian Journal 6 (October/December 2004): 95- 104.

“Sri Lanka in 2003: Seeking to Consolidate Peace.” Asian Survey 44, no. 1(January/February 2004): 49- 55.

“Is India Over-extended? When Domestic Disorder Precludes Regional Intervention.” Contemporary South Asia 12, no. 3 (September 2003): 365-80.

“Ethnolinguistic Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka.” In Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia, eds., Michael E. Brown and Sumit Ganguly (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003): 105-39.

“The Kashmir Question: Retrospect and Prospect.” Co-authored with Sumit Ganguly and Jonah Blank. India Review 2, no. 3 (July 2003): 1-13.

“Sri Lanka’s Political Decay: Analysing the October 2000 and December 2001 Parliamentary Elections.” Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 41, no. 2 (July 2003): 115-42.

“Demography and Communalism in India.” Journal of International Affairs 56, no. 1 (Fall 2002): 53-70. “Illiberalism and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka,” Journal of Democracy 13, no. 1 (January 2002): 84-98.

"The Utilisation of Religio-Linguistic Identities by the Sinhalese and Bengalis: Towards a General Explanation." Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 39, no. 1 (March 2001): 66-95.

"Control Democracy, Institutional Decay, and the Quest for Eelam: Explaining Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka." Pacific Affairs 73, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 55-76.

"Arresting the Post-Cold War Sisyphean Quandary: Ethnonationalism, Internal Conflicts, and the Quest for Conflict Resolution." Journal of Third World Studies 17, no. 1 (Spring 2000):177-96.

"Sri Lanka's Structural Adjustment Program and Its Impact on Indo-Lanka Relations." Asian Survey 38, no. 5 (May 1998): 457-73.

Popular Press Financial Times, “’s Tightening Grip on Sri Lanka,” May 27, 2010, p. 8.

International South Asia Forum, “Lions, Tigers, and the Culling of Sri Lanka’s Tamils,” March 2009. Available at http://www.insafbulletin.net/archives/502#more-502

Financial Times, “India May ‘Loathe’ Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers but It Has Consistently Called for Conflict Resolution,” May 30, 2006, p. 14. Invited Lectures “Religious Minorities in Sri Lanka.” Panel on Religious Minorities, Voting Rights, and Democratic Participation in South Asia, Allegheny College, PA, November 20, 2014.

“Sri Lanka’s Civil War and Non-Transitional Justice.” Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Senate House, London, November 25, 2013.

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“China in Sri Lanka: Increased Involvement, Limited Influence.” Rising China’s Influence in Developing Asia Project Workshop, Royal Holloway University of London, November 21-24, 2013.

“Democratic Regression and the Emerging Soft-Authoritarian Dispensation.” Thursdays at Byrum Lecture Series, Wake Forest University, October 24, 2013. “Sri Lanka’s Post-Civil War Soft-Authoritarian Dispensation.” South Asia Institute Distinguished Lecturer Series, Columbia University, New York, February 18, 2013.

“Levels of Analysis and Indo-Lanka Relations in a Changing Global Order.” Center for Contemporary Indian Studies, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 17, 2012.

“The Rise of China and Its Implications for Indo-Lanka Relations.” Social Science Baha, Lecture Series LXI, Kathmandu, Nepal, December 12, 2012.

“Sri Lanka’s Post-Civil War International Relations and Its Impact on South Asia’s Security Dynamics.” American Institute for Bangladesh Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 6, 2012.

“A President for Life? Mahinda Rajapaksa and Soft-Authoritarianism in Sri Lanka.” Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 2, 2012.

“Accountability Versus Reconciliation: Human Rights and Sri Lanka’s Post-Civil War Politics.” The UNESCO Madanjeet Singh South Asian Institute of Advanced Legal and Human Rights Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 1, 2012.

“U.S.-India Relations in a Global Context.” National Endowment for the Humanities Workshop on Integrating Teaching and Learning about India, Winston-Salem State University, May 8, 2012.

“Teaching Contemporary India: Incorporating Significant Issues in Course Syllabi across Disciplines.” National Endowment for the Humanities Workshop on Integrating Teaching and Learning about India, Winston-Salem State University, May 7, 2012.

“Democratic Regression and Soft-Authoritarianism in Post-War Sri Lanka.” College of the Holy Cross, MA, April 3, 2012.

“Sri Lanka: Accountability and Reconciliation in a Soft-Authoritarian Milieu.” Syracuse University, March 6, 2012.

“India Today: Democracy, Development, and International Influence.” Panel discussion at Elon University, NC, November 16, 2011.

“India Shining, India Suffering: The Promise and Perils Facing the World’s Largest Democracy.” University of North Carolina Greensboro, March 30, 2010.

“From Civil War to “Soft Authoritarianism’: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective.” Ivan and Janice Stone Lecture, Beloit College, Wisconsin, November 18, 2009.

“Lions, Tigers, and ‘Salmon-Eating Busybodies’: Nationalist Politics and Blame Displacement in Sri Lanka.” Stanford University, Palo Alto, May 13, 2008.

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“Nationalist and Ethno-Religious Violence in South Asia.” School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. January 9, 2008.

“America in Iraq: War, Insurgency, and No Way Out,” Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang, China, June 1, 2007. “Sri Lanka’s Civil War.” Williams College, Massachusetts. April 16, 2004.

“The Institutional Bases for Sri Lanka’s Separatist War.” University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, for the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies Seminar Series. January 2003.

“The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Associational Life, Unsocial Capital, and Illiberal Democracy in Sri Lanka.” International Center for , Colombo, Sri Lanka, organized by South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. December 2002.

“Does Pluralism Counter Islamic Fundamentalism? The Case of Sri Lanka’s Muslims.” Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University. April 2002.

“Ethnic Conflict and Civil Liberties in Sri Lanka,” Henderson State University, Arkansas, April 2001.

Selected Conference Presentations “Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism and Implications of Anti-Muslim and –Christian Agitation in Sri Lanka.” The 43rd Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, October 16-19, 2014.

“Militarization, Democracy, Governance, and Job Creation in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka,” The 42nd Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, October 17-20, 2013.

“The Joys and Frustrations of Teaching Contemporary India.” Teaching About India Conference, University of North Carolina Asheville, September 13, 2013.

“Justice Undermined: Political Interference and Judicial Corruption in Sri Lanka.” The 41th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, October 11-14, 2012.

“Sri Lanka’s Soft-Authoritarian Dispensation.” 22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies, Lisbon, Portugal, July 25-28, 2012.

“Urban-Rural Electoral Dynamics and the Implication for Dynastic Politics in Sri Lanka.” The 40th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, October 14-17, 2011.

“Russia in South Asia: Sri Lanka’s New Soft Authoritarian Dispensation.” The 39th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, October 14-17, 2010.

“Strategizing Identities in a Civil War: Polyethnicity and Governance in Batticaloa.” Conference on Dialogue on Democracy and Pluralism in South Asia, India International Center, New Delhi, May 1-2, 2007.

“Back to the Future: Sri Lanka’s 1956 Election and the Formation of a Nationalist Ideology” for panel on Sri Lanka’s 1956 Election: Retrospect and Prospect. The 35th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 20-22, 2006.

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“Identity Politics and Governance: The Case of Batticaloa.” Workshop on Dialogue on Democracy and Pluralism in South Asia, Nalagarh, Himachal Pradesh, India, April 20-22, 2006.

“Roundtable: Civil Society and Political Change in Asia.” Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, March 31-April 3, 2005. “Sri Lanka: After the Tsunami.” Symposium on The Great Tsunami of 2004: Short Term Costs and Long- Term Implications, Cornell University, Ithaca, February 23, 2005.

“Explaining Political and Social Violence in Sri Lanka.” Conference on Sri Lanka: Challenges of a Society in Transition, Sri Lanka Foundation Institute (organized by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo), December 16-18, 2004.

“Chauvinism and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka.” Conference on Chauvinism in South Asia at the Annual Workshop of the British Association of South Asian Studies and the Politics of South Asia Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association, University of Bristol, November 13, 2004.

“Courting Insecurity: Ethnonationalism and the Security Dilemma in Sri Lanka.” Conference on South Asian “Security” Challenges for the New Millennium, South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin, April 29-30, 2004.

“Civil Society and Illiberal Democracy in Sri Lanka.” Second Workshop on Civil Society and Political Change in Asia, Phnom Penh, , October 24-28, 2002.

“Consolidated Yet Illiberal: Associational Life and Unsocial Capital in Sri Lanka.” Conference on Consolidation in New , Uppsala University, Sweden, June 2002.

“Bringing Politics Back In: Institutional Decay and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka.” Forty-Third Annual International Studies Association Convention, New Orleans, March 24-27, 2002.

“Sri Lanka’s Uncivil Society.” Workshop on Civil Society and Political Change in Asia, East-West Center, Hawaii, March 2002.

“Sri Lanka’s Illiberal Democracy and the October 2000 Parliamentary Election.” Thirtieth Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, October 2001.

“Explaining Ethnoreligious and Ethnolinguistic Nationalism in Polyethnic Societies.” Eightieth Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Galveston, March 2000.

“Round Table: Democracy and Democratic Transitions.” Eightieth Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Galveston, March 2000.

", Ethnonationalism, and Ethnic Conflict Resolution." Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 1999.

"Religio-Linguistic Identities and the Perpetuation of Ethnonationalism." Seventy-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio, April 1999.

"Theorizing Separatist Movements in South Asia." Seventy-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio, April 1999.

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"Institutional Breakdown, Tamil Secession, and the Plausibility for Conflict Resolution: The Case of Sri Lanka." Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, October 1998. "Sri Lanka: Structural Adjustment and Its Impact on Indo-Lanka Relations, 1977-87." Annual Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Boulder, October 1997.

Professional Service Chair and Discussant, “Constitutions and Ethnic Diversity in South Asian Democracies.” The 42nd Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, October 17-20, 2013.

Discussant, “Mediating Institutions and Strategies of Negotiating Identities in South Asia.” Minorities in Islam, Muslims as Minorities Conference, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, October 18-20, 2012.

Discussant, “”Democracy in South Asia: Looming Danger of Reverse Wave?” The 41th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, October 11-14, 2012.

Chair, “Social and Political Change in Post-War Sri Lanka,” 40th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, October 14-17, 2011.

Chair, “Globalization, Gender, and Development: Comparative Perspectives from South and ,” 59th Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Boston, March 22-25, 2007. Chair, “Ethnic Politics and Protest,” 43rd Annual International Studies Association Convention, New Orleans, March 24-27, 2002.

Member, Comparative-South Asia Search Committee, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2000. Member, Search Committee to hire Director of the Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2000.

Panel Discussant: “Globalization and Politics of Development in the New Millennium.” Eightieth Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Galveston, March 2000.

Panel Discussant: "Ethnonationalism in International Politics." Seventy-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio, April 1999.

Elected Government Student Organization President, University of Texas at Austin, 1997-98.

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