Sunil Bastian

• Can democracy be designed?
• Assessing participation
• Devolution and development in Sri Lanka
• Foreign investment in Sri Lanka
• Institutional development within a state in transition
• Power and politics in the shadow of Sri Lanka's armed conflict
• State Formation and Conflicts in Sri Lanka
• The economic agenda and the peace process
• The failure of state formation, identity conflict and civil society repsonses
• The political economy of post-war Sri Lanka
• The politics of foreign aid in Sri Lanka
• Towards conflict resolution in the Third World