Mahendra Lawoti

Mahendra Lawoti
Professor

3408 Friedmann Hall
(269) 387-5702

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Mahendra Lawoti is president of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, an associate fellow (non-resident) of the Asia Society, New York, and a columnist for The Kathmandu Post. His teaching and research interests cover democratization, political institutions, ethnic politics, violent and non-violent conflict, international development and South Asian politics. Professor Lawoti has authored "Towards a Democratic Nepal: Inclusive Political Institutions for a Multicultural Society" (SAGE 2005; Nepali translation 2007), "Samabesi Sambidhan Sabha ra Rajyako Punarsamrachana" (in Nepali) (Inclusive Constituent Assembly and the Restructuring of the State) (NISP 2007), and "Looking Back, Looking Forward: Centralization, Multiple Conflicts, and Democratic State Building in Nepal" (East-West Center 2007); edited "Contentious Politics and Democratization in Nepal" (SAGE 2007); and co-authored "Government and Politics in South Asia," sixth edition (Westview 2008) and Minority Protection in South Asia (UBSPD/ICES 2003). He has published articles in Democratization, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Studies in Nepali History and Society, Himalaya: Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies , and others, and frequently contributes op-ed pieces in English and Nepali. Dr. Lawoti is currently working on two book projects. He is co-editing "The Maoist Insurgency in the Twenty-first Century: Dynamics and Growth in Nepal" (Routledge, forthcoming 2009) and revising and expanding his dissertation as "Exclusionary Democratization, Breakdown, and Conflict: Nepal in a Comparative Perspective." Dr. Lawoti previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Wake Forest University.