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Bose, Sumantra

Professor Sumantra Bose  

Department

Position held

Department of Government

Professor of International and Comparative Politics

 

Experience keywords:

Bosnia; India; Israeli Palestinian conflict; Kashmir; Sri Lanka; conflict resolution; democratisation; ethnic conflict; former Yugoslavia; peace processes

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Sumantra Bose is a scholar of comparative politics and international relations. His work includes several acclaimed books--Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, Sri Lanka (Harvard University Press, 2007), Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace (Harvard University Press, 2003), and Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (Oxford University Press, 2002). Contested Lands was also published in Arabic translation in 2008, and in an edition for the Indian subcontinent by HarperCollins India, Delhi. Contested Lands and Kashmir are available worldwide in paperback and digital forms, and Bosnia after Dayton in hardback and paperback.

Professor Bose's new book Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy, has been published worldwide in autumn 2013 by Harvard University Press (and in the Indian subcontinent by Picador India, Delhi). Transforming India is available in print and digital forms.

Sumantra Bose graduated in 1992 with highest honours from Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA and received MA, MPhil and PhD (1998) degrees in political science from Columbia University, New York, USA. He is a citizen of India, where he spends a considerable proportion of his time. He contributes regularly on his topics and areas of expertise to many international media including the BBC and Al-Jazeera.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Bosnia; India; Israel; Kashmir; Palestine; Sri Lanka

Languages:

Bengali [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Bosnian [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; Hindi [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Serbian [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; Urdu [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream press; Radio; TV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7811

LSE email:

s.bose@lse.ac.uk

Publications

2018

Bose, Sumantra (2018) Secular states, religious politics: India, Turkey, and the future of secularism Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781108454865 (In Press)

2017

Bose, Sumantra (2017) Mostar as microcosm: power-sharing in post-war Bosnia In: McCulloch, Allison and McGarry, John, (eds.) Power-Sharing: Empirical and Normative Challenges. Routledge studies on challenges, crises and dissent in world politics. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 189-210. ISBN 9781138640368

2016

Bose, Sumantra (2016) National self- determination conflicts: explaining endurance and intractability In: Crocker, Chester A. and Osler Hampson, Fen and Aall, Pamela, (eds.) Managing Conflict in a World Adrift. CIGI Press, Montreal, Canada, 169-186. ISBN 9781928096092

2015

Bose, Sumantra (2015) National self-determination conflicts: explaining endurance and intractability In: Crocker, Chester A. and Osler Hampson, Fen and Aall, Pamela, (eds.) Managing Conflict in a World Adrift. United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington, USA. ISBN 9781601272225

2014

Banerjee, Mukulika and Bose, Sumantra (2014) What can other democracies learn from India? E-debate with LSE academics South Asia @ LSE (9 Apr 2014) blog

Banerjee, Mukulika and Bose, Sumantra (2014) Spotlight on India’s Lok Sabha elections: why do Indians vote? South Asia @ LSE (7 Apr 2014) blog

2013

Bose, Sumantra (2013) Kosovo's northern dilemma in historical and comparative perspective Journal of European and International Affairs, 1 (1). 41-45. ISSN 2305-4336

Bose, Sumantra (2013) Indian democracy: a work in progress South Asia @ LSE (15 Oct 2013) blog

Bose, Sumantra (2013) Transforming India: challenges to the world's largest democracy in the 21st Century Harvard University Press, Cambridge, USA. ISBN 9780674050662

2012

Bose, Sumantra and South Asia, LSE (2012) Historical inevitability? The regionalisation of Indian politics (Part I) South Asia @ LSE (9 Jul 2012) blog

Bose, Sumantra (2012) Class, culture, and politics: the making of Mamata Banerjee South Asia @ LSE (26 Sep 2012) blog

Bose, Sumantra and South Asia, LSE (2012) Historical inevitability? The regionalisation of Indian politics (Part II) South Asia @ LSE (11 Jul 2012) blog

Bose, Sumantra (2012) Book review: The books that inspired Sumantra Bose:“Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth touched achord with both my national and personalbackground” LSE Review of Books (5 Aug 2012) Blog entry

Bose, Sumantra (2012) The books that inspired Sumantra Bose: “Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth touched a chord with both my national and personal background” Impact of Social Sciences Blog (12 Aug 2012) Blog entry

Bose, Sumantra (2012) Peacemaking in conflicts over independence In: Fixdal, Mona, (ed.) Ways Out of War: Peacemakers in the Middle East and Balkans. Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK. ISBN 9781137030535

2011

Bose, Sumantra (2011) To partition or not: a comparative perspective Ethnopolitics, 10 (3-4). 445-449. ISSN 1744-9057

2010

Bose, Sumantra (2010) Kashmir In: Baruah, Sanjib, (ed.) Ethnonationalism in India: a Reader. Critical issues in Indian politics. Oxford University Press, India. ISBN 9780198060437

2008

Bose, Sumantra (2008) Contested lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus and Sri Lanka [in Arabic] Arab Scientific Publishers, Beirut.

2007

Bose, Sumantra (2007) Contested lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus and Sri Lanka Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass. ISBN 9780674024472

2005

Bose, Sumantra (2005) The Bosnian state a decade after Dayton International Peacekeeping, 12 (3). 322-335. ISSN 1353-3312

2004

Bose, Sumantra (2004) Kashmir, roots of conflict: paths to peace In: Laqueur, Walter, (ed.) Voices of Terror. Reed Press, New York, USA, 458-463. ISBN 9781594290350

Bose, Sumantra (2004) Decolonization and state-building in South Asia Journal of International Affairs, 58 (1). 95-113. ISSN 0022-197X

2003

Bose, Sumantra (2003) Kashmir: roots of conflict, paths to peace Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, UK. ISBN 9780674011731

Bose, Sumantra (2003) Mostar: International Intervention in a Divided Bosnian Town In: Siani-Davies, Peter, (ed.) International Intervention in the Balkans Since 1995. Routledge.

Bose, Sumantra (2003) The Implications of Ethnonational Conflict for Democracy In: Karatnycky, Adrian and Piano, Aili and Puddington, Arch, (eds.) Freedom in the World 2003. Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc.

2002

Bose, Sumantra (2002) Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist partition and international intervention Oxford University Press, New York, USA. ISBN 9780195158489

Bose, Sumantra (2002) Flawed mediation, chaotic implementation: the 1987 Indo-Sri Lankan peace agreement In: Stedman, Stephen J, (ed.) ENDing Civil Wars: the Implementation of Peace Agreements. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, CO, 631-662. ISBN 9781588260833

2001

Bose, Sumantra (2001) Kashmir at the crossroads: problems and possibilities Security Dialogue, 32 (1). 41-64. ISSN 0967-0106

2000

Bose, Sumantra (2000) Kashmir, 1990-2000: reflections on individual voices in a dirty war Development, 43 (3). ISSN 1011-6370

1999

Bose, Sumantra (1999) Kashmir: sources of conflict, dimensions of peace Survival, 41 (3). 149-171. ISSN 0039-6338

1997

Bose, Sumantra (1997) The challenge in Kashmir: Democracy, self-determination and a just peace Sage Publications, New Delhi, India. ISBN 9780803993501

1994

Bose, Sumantra (1994) States, nations, sovereignty: Sri Lanka, India and the Tamil Eelam movement Sage Publications, New Delhi, India. ISBN 9780803991705

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One of the three Best Books on Asia and the Pacific published in 2013 (Foreign Affairs magazine, January 2014)

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