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Ukraine’s Euromaidan moment and the power of global elite networks (2023)
Thesis
Hale, S. Ukraine’s Euromaidan moment and the power of global elite networks. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The street protests that erupted in Ukraine in late 2013 prompted by the government’s sudden pull-back from the process of joining the European Union, leading to the government’s collapse two months later, are widely understood as a pivotal moment of... Read More about Ukraine’s Euromaidan moment and the power of global elite networks.

The Tamil Proscriptions: Identities, Legitimacies and Situated Practices (2018)
Journal Article
Nadarajah, S. (in press). The Tamil Proscriptions: Identities, Legitimacies and Situated Practices. Terrorism and Political Violence, 30(2), 278-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2018.1432214

Conventional analyses of terrorism proscription rely on conceptions of policy in terms of bureaucratic institutions and processes functioning according to means-end rationality, and law as an institutionalised body of rules expressive of sovereign po... Read More about The Tamil Proscriptions: Identities, Legitimacies and Situated Practices.

A long view of liberal peace and its crisis (2016)
Journal Article
Rampton, D., & Nadarajah, S. (in press). A long view of liberal peace and its crisis. European Journal of International Relations, 23(2), 441-465. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066116649029

The ‘crisis’ of liberal peace has generated considerable debate in International Relations. However, analysis is inhibited by a shared set of spatial, cultural and temporal assumptions that rest on and reproduce a problematic separation between self-... Read More about A long view of liberal peace and its crisis.

Securing the diaspora: Policing global order (2016)
Book Chapter
Laffey, M., & Nadarajah, S. (2016). Securing the diaspora: Policing global order. In J. Hönke, & M.-M. Muller (Eds.), The Global Making of Police: Postcolonial Perspectives (114-131). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315680040

This chapter explores the transnational security governance of diasporas as a window onto the global making of policing. Using the Tamil diaspora in Britain as case study, it argues that policing – understood as governance directed to the production... Read More about Securing the diaspora: Policing global order.

Postcolonialism (2016)
Book Chapter
Laffey, M., & Nadarajah, S. (2016). Postcolonialism. In A. Collins (Ed.), Contemporary Security Studies (122-138). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198708315.003.0009

In this chapter, we introduce postcolonialism as a recent and increasingly influential set of positions and perspectives within the wider discipline of International Relations, and sketch its implications for security studies. We begin with postcolon... Read More about Postcolonialism.

The limits of hybridity and the crisis of liberal peace (2014)
Journal Article
Nadarajah, S., & Rampton, D. (2015). The limits of hybridity and the crisis of liberal peace. Review of International Studies, 41(1), 49-72. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210514000060

Hybridity has emerged recently as a key response in International Relations and peace studies to the crisis of liberal peace. Attributing the failures of liberal peacebuilding to a lack of legitimacy deriving from uncompromising efforts to impose a r... Read More about The limits of hybridity and the crisis of liberal peace.

The Hybridity of Liberal Peace: States, Diasporas and Insecurity (2012)
Journal Article
Laffey, M., & Nadarajah, S. The Hybridity of Liberal Peace: States, Diasporas and Insecurity. Security Dialogue, 43(5), 402-419. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010612457974

Much contemporary analysis of world order rests on and reproduces a dualistic account of the international system, which is divided into liberal and non-liberal spaces, practices and subjectivities. Drawing on postcolonial thought, we challenge such... Read More about The Hybridity of Liberal Peace: States, Diasporas and Insecurity.

Thinking Peace: Revisiting Analysis and Intervention in Sri Lanka (2011)
Book Chapter
Vimalarajah, L., & Nadarajah, S. (2011). Thinking Peace: Revisiting Analysis and Intervention in Sri Lanka. In D. Körppen, N. Ropers, & H. J. Giessman (Eds.), The Non-Linearity of Peace Processes: Theory and Practice of Systemic Conflict Transformation (129-145). Barbara Budrich Verlag

Clash of governmentalities : Liberal peace, Tamil freedom and the 2001-2006 peace process in Sri Lanka. (2010)
Thesis
Nadarajah, S. Clash of governmentalities : Liberal peace, Tamil freedom and the 2001-2006 peace process in Sri Lanka. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This dissertation argues that the dynamics, trajectories and outcomes of the Norwegian-led intervention in Sri Lanka from 2001 to 2006 to end the protracted armed conflict in the island can be productively understood as a 'clash of governmentalities'... Read More about Clash of governmentalities : Liberal peace, Tamil freedom and the 2001-2006 peace process in Sri Lanka..

Disciplining the Diaspora: Tamil Self-Determination and the Politics of Proscription (2009)
Book Chapter
Nadarajah, S. (2009). Disciplining the Diaspora: Tamil Self-Determination and the Politics of Proscription. In A. Ingram, & K. Dodds (Eds.), Spaces of Security and Insecurity: Geographies of the War on Terror (109-130). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315610214

Anti-imperialism was the raw material from which a new, metaphorical geography of connection was forged. This chapter shows how the new anti-war anti-imperialism emerged out of a series of political traditions and locations. The more general contesta... Read More about Disciplining the Diaspora: Tamil Self-Determination and the Politics of Proscription.

Conflict sensitive Aid and Making Liberal Peace (2009)
Book Chapter
Nadarajah, S. (2009). Conflict sensitive Aid and Making Liberal Peace. In M. Duffield, & V. Hewitt (Eds.), Empire, Development and Colonialism: The Past in the Present (109-129). James Curry

Liberation struggle or terrorism? The politics of naming the LTTE (2005)
Journal Article
Nadarajah, S., & Sriskandarajah, D. (2005). Liberation struggle or terrorism? The politics of naming the LTTE. Third World Quarterly, 26(1), 87-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/0143659042000322928

This article examines the politics of naming in one of the longest-running and most intractable conflicts in the world: that between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (ltte) and the Sri Lankan state. While the narratives presented by the ltte and... Read More about Liberation struggle or terrorism? The politics of naming the LTTE.