Push Back

Sri Lanka's Dance with Global Governance

By: Judith Large

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Paperback | 15 January 2016

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After decades of conflict, the Sri Lankan government in 2009 proclaimed the decisive defeat of the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Elam. Since then, the state has proved resistant to attempts by the UN and other international bodies to promote postwar reconciliation. In this incisive new work, Judith Large investigates the ways in which the Sri Lankan government has been able to subvert international diplomatic efforts, and she explores the wider context of rising Sinhalese nationalism, the attendant growth of discrimination against Tamils, and efforts by both the Tamil diaspora and groups within Sri Lanka to lobby the international community.

The implications of Large's work also extend far beyond Sri Lanka to the larger conversation about the integral role the international community plays in negotiating an end to conflicts and supervising the rebuilding of post-conflict societies. Push Back will be vital reading not only for those interested in Sri Lanka, but for those interested in the wider implications of the conflict for human rights, peacemaking, and geopolitics.

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An exceptionally detailed and carefully crafted study ... the book strikes an excellent balance between accessibility of style and empirical rigour ... a satisfying combination of facts and rigorous analysis that will be a vital source for anyone engaging in research, development or policy work in Sri Lanka now and in the future.' * Commonwealth and Comparative Politics *
Offers a fascinating account of the Sri Lankan government's tense relationship with the international community. Filled with sharp insights, Push Back will help us all have a better sense of where Sri Lanka may be headed. * Alan Keenan, Sri Lanka Project Director, International Crisis Group *
This important new volume is essential reading for those wishing to understand the decades-long conflict in Sri Lanka, the quest for accountability, and the challenges of building peace in the wake of conflict. * Chandra Lekha Sriram, University of East London *
The first serious academic study of the Rajapaksa regime's manipulation of the international system, which enabled them to preside over mass atrocities and get away scot free. * Frances Harrison, former Sri Lanka correspondent for the BBC and author of Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka's Hidden War *
A brilliant exposition of the end game in the Sri-Lankan civil war. * Kevin Clements, University of Otago *
Few inquiries have offered the theoretically incisive lens adopted here ... Combing a nimble, Foucauldian conceptualization of the rapidly changing landscape of "global governance" and notions of "illiberal peacebuilding". * Matthew Godwin, Journal of South Asian Development *
Incisively interrogates Sri Lanka's socio-political fabric under the Rajapaksa regime ... the book sheds new light on how the government got away with outrageous human rights violations, even after the war. * Sanjana Hattotuwa, Centre for Policy Alternatives (Sri Lanka) *

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