Book Launch - 'Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka'

We invite you to a book launch hosted by author Bart Klem, Associate Professor in Peace and Development Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden. The event will include an interdisciplinary discussion. The book 'Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka' is available (open access) via the CUP website.

This book yields a compelling analytical narrative that shows how political institutions are enacted and witnessed, rather than cataloguing them in the strictures of the law. Additionally, it provides food for thought for broader conceptual debates concerning armed conflict and insurgency.

The book presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with Georg Frerks and Ramesh Ganohariti: 

• Georg Frerks is professor emeritus. He held the chair of Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management at Utrecht University and the chair of  International Security Studies at the Netherlands Defence Academy. He has published both academic and policy-oriented research on conflict, peacebuilding, and disasters and he has a long track record working on conflict in Sri Lanka. 
• Ramesh Ganohariti is a Lecturer at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs or Leiden University. He recently completed his PhD in Politics and International Relations at Dublin City University with a dissertation explaining how citizenship has been constructed in three aspirant states in the former Soviet space: Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria.    

Join us for the book launch of 'Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka'!