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About Sumantra Bose

Sumantra Bose is professor of international and comparative politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His books include Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (Oxford University Press, 2002), Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace (Harvard University Press, 2003) and Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka (Harvard University Press, 2007). The last of these works was also published in a subsidiary edition for south Asia by HarperCollins India, Delhi, in November 2007, and in Arabic translation by Arab Scientific Publishers, Beirut, in early 2008  

Articles by Sumantra Bose

Thursday 9th April

India's election: parties, people, politics

A vast month-long poll presents both regional and global tests to New Delhi's polity
Thursday 22nd May

Kosovo to Kashmir: the self-determination dilemma

Solutions to self-determination disputes are better found through compromise than confrontation

Thursday 23rd August

The partition evasion

Dividing territories and "unmixing" peoples is an idea whose time is past
Tuesday 12th June

Sri Lanka’s stalemated conflict

Sri Lanka's ethno-national war is unwinnable. But rooted enmity blocks compromise
Sunday 13th May

Contested lands: paths to progress

Bosnia, Cyprus, Kashmir, Palestine-Israel, Sri Lanka…how can such societies move from conflict to settlement, and overcome the obstacles that inevitably arise in a difficult transition? Sumantra Bose draws lessons from a comparative study.
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