Neil DeVotta

Dec 16, 2024 | southasianvoices.org | Neil DeVotta

In 2024, Sri Lanka conducted both presidential and parliamentary elections that realigned its political order.

Sep 25, 2024 | journalofdemocracy.org | Marlon Ariyasinghe |Neil DeVotta |Tom Ginsburg

A few years ago Anura Kumara Dissanayake led a struggling political party with bleak prospects. Now he is Sri Lanka’s newly elected president. The hardest work may still lie ahead. By Marlon Ariyasinghe In the early hours of Sunday, September 22, as I sat confined in an airplane in transit, Sri Lanka was navigating a transition of its own.

Aug 28, 2024 | southasianvoices.org | Neil DeVotta |Khandakar Tahmid Rejwan |Anuradha Oinam |Stanzin Lhaskyabs

Sri Lanka is scheduled for its next presidential election between September and October 2024. Its previous presidential poll in November 2019 saw Gotabaya Rajapaksa easily elected. Yet massive anti-government protests related to inflation and scarcity forced President Rajapaksa to flee the country in July 2022. This was after Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa — his brother who was president from 2005 to 2015 — had fled two months before.

Aug 28, 2024 | southasianvoices.org | Neil DeVotta

Neil DeVotta is a professor of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest University. He is the author of Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka.

Jan 24, 2024 | routledge.com | Jason Kirk |Neil DeVotta |Anas Malik |Ali Riaz |Prakash Adhikari |Mahendra Lawoti | +1 more

Table of Contents Book DescriptionCritics' Reviews2nd EditionEdited By Neil DeVottaCopyright 2024 The second edition of this introductory textbook provides students with an overarching understanding of social, political, and economic institutions of six South Asian countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Using democracy as a prism, it evaluates the varied opportunities and constraints facing these states.