Bart Klem

Location

Annedalsseminariet, room 419

Materials

Click here for the (post-lecture) slides.

See the details on my research below (and the reading requirements and suggestions) if you want to get right into this.

Description

Many conflicts concern the very idea of what the state should be. What are different ways to understand separatist conflicts? What are the implications of different “solutions” to conflicts over territory and the state?

Teacher's Background

I will draw on two parts of my work in this class. Firstly, my research (over many years) on the Tamil nationalist movement and complicated political landscape of the separatist conflict in Sri Lanka (see this new book and my webpage for detail). Secondly, my on-going work on legal identity under unrecognised states, with a focus on Northern Cyprus (see this project webpage and this new special issue in Citizenship Studies).

Required Reading

Klem, Bart, and Sidharthan Maunaguru. 2017. “Insurgent Rule as Sovereign Mimicry and Mutation: Governance, Kingship and Violence in Civil Wars.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 59, no. 3: 629–656.

Mampilly, Zachariah and Megan Stewart. 2021. “A Typology of Rebel Political Institutional Arrangements.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 65, no. 1: 15-45.

Olson Lounsbery, Marie and Karl DeRouen Jr. 2023. “Are Non-Inclusive Peace Agreements Effective Counter-Insurgency Strategies?” International Peacekeeping, in print DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2023.2276699

Recommended Reading

Arjona, Ana, Nelson Kasfir, and Zachariah Mampilly, eds. 2015. Rebel Governance in Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Goodhand, Jonathan, Bart Klem, and Gunnar Sørbø. 2011a. Pawns of Peace: Evaluation of Norwegian Peace Efforts in Sri Lanka, 1997–2009. Norad report 5/2011.

Harris, Albert W. 2007. “Peace Processes under Conditions of Uncertain Sovereignty.” International Negotiation 12: 175–205.

Harris, Albert W. 2010. “Coming to Terms with Separatist Insurgencies.” Negotiation Journal 26(3): 327-356.

Klem, Bart (2024) Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka. In print with Cambridge University Press.

Sosnowksi, Marika & Bart Klem (2024) ‘Legal Identity in a Looking-Glass World: Documenting Citizens of Aspirant States’, Citizenship Studies 28(1), introduction to special issue. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2024.2321713

Liebel, Steven R. and Andrew J. Enterline (2014) “Negotiation, Mediation and Insurgent Victory in Counter-insurgency Wars Fought by Foreign Powers.” International Negotiation 19: 371-396.