Fixes and Flux: Frontier Brokers, Political Settlements and Post-War Politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka.
This article examines post-war politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka through the prism of centre-periphery relations, drawing upon and expanding political settlements analysis. We highlight two key features neglected in existing research on political settlements: first, the spatial dimensions of these set...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 58; no. 11; pp. 2331 - 2349 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2022
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