Monalisa Adhikari
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monalisa Adhikari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monalisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Adhikari |
| SIGNATURE | ADHIKARI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7279-4354 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Discreet dominance”
Beyond comprehensive peace agreements
Comprehensive peace agreements have historically been considered the tool of best practice for settling armed conflicts and, more recently, a conduit for the international community to spread liberal norms. Yet today such settlements are rare whilst local peace agreements are on the rise. Using the PA-X Local database, we evaluate how and in what ways do liberal norms feature in local peace agreements. We argue that the participation of civil soc…
Navigating Infrastructural Rivalries in Global Politics
Disaggregated mediation
In recent years, comprehensive peace agreements have reduced in frequency, and international mediation initiatives have become ‘disaggregated’ focused on brokering localised, sub-state dialogue processes, with issue-specific discussions, alongside attempts at national-level processes. This article focuses on three aspects of this shift: it (a) proposes disaggregated mediation as a conceptual framework to understand these processes, (b) outlines d…
Statebuilding Beyond Western Interventions
Over the last three decades, statebuilding, or the process of building political institutions in conflict-affected states (CAS), as a part of a negotiated peace settlement, has been associated with peacebuilding interventions supported by Western states. Non-western rising powers, in turn, are seen to disengage from statebuilding given their ambivalence towards the liberal peacebuilding agenda, and support for the norm of sovereignty. Challenging…
Formal Adoption – Informal Subversion’
Peace processes involve reforming or rewriting constitutions as a pathway to establishing an inclusive state, often with international constitutional assistance (ICA). Examining Nepal’s post-conflict constitution-writing process, this article explores why ICA fails to deliver on inclusion. It argues that ICA’s prioritisation of formal aspects – inclusive institutional design and participatory process – makes it unable to influence informal politi…
The BRI as an Iterative Project
This article examines the impact of the BRI on the peace processes of conflict-affected states (CAS) bordering China, namely Nepal and Myanmar. It underscores the need to assess the impact of the BRI as an iterative process: where the BRI impacts the political economy of host CAS; but also how contextual specificities of the CAS, undertaking a peace process, are reshaping the delivery of the BRI. Here, the article first outlines that the BRI is n…
Non-Western engagement in peace processes and the rise of ‘hedging’ by elites in conflict-affected states
Analysing the peace processes of Nepal and Myanmar, this article argues that the changing landscape of peacebuilding support to conflict-affected states(CAS) marked by multiple international actors is increasing the bargaining leverage of elites in CAS to shape post-conflict institutions in their favour. It highlights that multiple and competing forms of international engagement allow elites in CAS not only to 'co-opt' international support as wi…
Framing Asean s Cooperation with India and China over Myanmar Post-coup
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Negotiated Coexistence”
A much-discussed theme in international relations is how emerging powers will engage with the declining liberal world order and its various governance regimes. This article examines the engagement of emergent powers with the regime of “peacebuilding.” Empirically, it examines the interaction between India and China, with liberal peacebuilding projects in the peace processes of Nepal and Myanmar respectively. Departing from the theory that emergen…
All roads lead north
Amish Mulmi's All roads lead north is a well-researched account of Nepal–China bilateral relations. In the book, Mulmi appraises the historical evolution, asymmetry and wider implications of the ties among the two neighbours. While the book does not claim to be an International Relations (IR) work, it makes four contributions to the discipline. First, it de-emphasizes Nepalese relations with India in the study of the former's foreign policy. Trad…
Peacebuilding with “Chinese Characteristics”? Insights from China's Engagement in Myanmar's Peace Process
The unpreceded rise of China, amid the decline of the Western-led liberal world order, has brought questions about how China will engage with the various manifestations of that world order, including human rights, trade, and global peace and security regimes. Through the empirical example of Chinese engagement in Myanmar, this article offers an inductive analysis of China's engagement in the field of “peacebuilding”: a prominent manifestation of …
Breaking the Balance? The Impact of Peacekeeping Deployments on Civil–Military Relations
Since the 1990s, the face of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping has changed drastically, with personnel contributions now coming predominantly from developing countries. Some of the most fragile states worldwide, marked by limited state capacity and domestic conflict, have been deploying their security forces in UN peacekeeping missions. Drawing on the literature on civil–military relations, this article examines the impact that such deployments ha…
India in South Asia
In fragile and conflict-affected States 1 (henceforth FCAS) in South Asia, two distinct forms of international engagement have worked simultaneously—the engagement of India, the regional hegemon, and that of Western states that promote liberal peacebuilding projects. From Norwegian engagement in Sri Lanka to European Union (EU) and United Nations (UN) engagement in Myanmar, to the UN-led international engagement in Nepal, liberal peacebuilding, d…
Peacebuilding with “Chinese Characteristics”? Insights from China's Engagement in Myanmar's Peace Process
The unpreceded rise of China, amid the decline of the Western-led liberal world order, has brought questions about how China will engage with the various manifestations of that world order, including human rights, trade, and global peace and security regimes. Through the empirical example of Chinese engagement in Myanmar, this article offers an inductive analysis of China's engagement in the field of “peacebuilding”: a prominent manifestation of …
Negotiated Coexistence”
A much-discussed theme in international relations is how emerging powers will engage with the declining liberal world order and its various governance regimes. This article examines the engagement of emergent powers with the regime of “peacebuilding.” Empirically, it examines the interaction between India and China, with liberal peacebuilding projects in the peace processes of Nepal and Myanmar respectively. Departing from the theory that emergen…
Breaking the Balance? The Impact of Peacekeeping Deployments on Civil–Military Relations
Since the 1990s, the face of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping has changed drastically, with personnel contributions now coming predominantly from developing countries. Some of the most fragile states worldwide, marked by limited state capacity and domestic conflict, have been deploying their security forces in UN peacekeeping missions. Drawing on the literature on civil–military relations, this article examines the impact that such deployments ha…
The BRI as an Iterative Project
This article examines the impact of the BRI on the peace processes of conflict-affected states (CAS) bordering China, namely Nepal and Myanmar. It underscores the need to assess the impact of the BRI as an iterative process: where the BRI impacts the political economy of host CAS; but also how contextual specificities of the CAS, undertaking a peace process, are reshaping the delivery of the BRI. Here, the article first outlines that the BRI is n…
Non-Western engagement in peace processes and the rise of ‘hedging’ by elites in conflict-affected states
Analysing the peace processes of Nepal and Myanmar, this article argues that the changing landscape of peacebuilding support to conflict-affected states(CAS) marked by multiple international actors is increasing the bargaining leverage of elites in CAS to shape post-conflict institutions in their favour. It highlights that multiple and competing forms of international engagement allow elites in CAS not only to 'co-opt' international support as wi…
Disaggregated mediation
In recent years, comprehensive peace agreements have reduced in frequency, and international mediation initiatives have become ‘disaggregated’ focused on brokering localised, sub-state dialogue processes, with issue-specific discussions, alongside attempts at national-level processes. This article focuses on three aspects of this shift: it (a) proposes disaggregated mediation as a conceptual framework to understand these processes, (b) outlines d…
Framing Asean s Cooperation with India and China over Myanmar Post-coup
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
All roads lead north
Amish Mulmi's All roads lead north is a well-researched account of Nepal–China bilateral relations. In the book, Mulmi appraises the historical evolution, asymmetry and wider implications of the ties among the two neighbours. While the book does not claim to be an International Relations (IR) work, it makes four contributions to the discipline. First, it de-emphasizes Nepalese relations with India in the study of the former's foreign policy. Trad…
India in South Asia
In fragile and conflict-affected States 1 (henceforth FCAS) in South Asia, two distinct forms of international engagement have worked simultaneously—the engagement of India, the regional hegemon, and that of Western states that promote liberal peacebuilding projects. From Norwegian engagement in Sri Lanka to European Union (EU) and United Nations (UN) engagement in Myanmar, to the UN-led international engagement in Nepal, liberal peacebuilding, d…
India in South Asia
In fragile and conflict-affected States 1 (henceforth FCAS) in South Asia, two distinct forms of international engagement have worked simultaneously—the engagement of India, the regional hegemon, and that of Western states that promote liberal peacebuilding projects. From Norwegian engagement in Sri Lanka to European Union (EU) and United Nations (UN) engagement in Myanmar, to the UN-led international engagement in Nepal, liberal peacebuilding, d…
Breaking the Balance? The Impact of Peacekeeping Deployments on Civil–Military Relations
Since the 1990s, the face of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping has changed drastically, with personnel contributions now coming predominantly from developing countries. Some of the most fragile states worldwide, marked by limited state capacity and domestic conflict, have been deploying their security forces in UN peacekeeping missions. Drawing on the literature on civil–military relations, this article examines the impact that such deployments ha…
Peacebuilding with “Chinese Characteristics”? Insights from China's Engagement in Myanmar's Peace Process
The unpreceded rise of China, amid the decline of the Western-led liberal world order, has brought questions about how China will engage with the various manifestations of that world order, including human rights, trade, and global peace and security regimes. Through the empirical example of Chinese engagement in Myanmar, this article offers an inductive analysis of China's engagement in the field of “peacebuilding”: a prominent manifestation of …
Negotiated Coexistence”
A much-discussed theme in international relations is how emerging powers will engage with the declining liberal world order and its various governance regimes. This article examines the engagement of emergent powers with the regime of “peacebuilding.” Empirically, it examines the interaction between India and China, with liberal peacebuilding projects in the peace processes of Nepal and Myanmar respectively. Departing from the theory that emergen…
All roads lead north
Amish Mulmi's All roads lead north is a well-researched account of Nepal–China bilateral relations. In the book, Mulmi appraises the historical evolution, asymmetry and wider implications of the ties among the two neighbours. While the book does not claim to be an International Relations (IR) work, it makes four contributions to the discipline. First, it de-emphasizes Nepalese relations with India in the study of the former's foreign policy. Trad…
Formal Adoption – Informal Subversion’
Peace processes involve reforming or rewriting constitutions as a pathway to establishing an inclusive state, often with international constitutional assistance (ICA). Examining Nepal’s post-conflict constitution-writing process, this article explores why ICA fails to deliver on inclusion. It argues that ICA’s prioritisation of formal aspects – inclusive institutional design and participatory process – makes it unable to influence informal politi…
The BRI as an Iterative Project
This article examines the impact of the BRI on the peace processes of conflict-affected states (CAS) bordering China, namely Nepal and Myanmar. It underscores the need to assess the impact of the BRI as an iterative process: where the BRI impacts the political economy of host CAS; but also how contextual specificities of the CAS, undertaking a peace process, are reshaping the delivery of the BRI. Here, the article first outlines that the BRI is n…
Non-Western engagement in peace processes and the rise of ‘hedging’ by elites in conflict-affected states
Analysing the peace processes of Nepal and Myanmar, this article argues that the changing landscape of peacebuilding support to conflict-affected states(CAS) marked by multiple international actors is increasing the bargaining leverage of elites in CAS to shape post-conflict institutions in their favour. It highlights that multiple and competing forms of international engagement allow elites in CAS not only to 'co-opt' international support as wi…
Framing Asean s Cooperation with India and China over Myanmar Post-coup
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Statebuilding Beyond Western Interventions
Over the last three decades, statebuilding, or the process of building political institutions in conflict-affected states (CAS), as a part of a negotiated peace settlement, has been associated with peacebuilding interventions supported by Western states. Non-western rising powers, in turn, are seen to disengage from statebuilding given their ambivalence towards the liberal peacebuilding agenda, and support for the norm of sovereignty. Challenging…
Beyond comprehensive peace agreements
Comprehensive peace agreements have historically been considered the tool of best practice for settling armed conflicts and, more recently, a conduit for the international community to spread liberal norms. Yet today such settlements are rare whilst local peace agreements are on the rise. Using the PA-X Local database, we evaluate how and in what ways do liberal norms feature in local peace agreements. We argue that the participation of civil soc…
Navigating Infrastructural Rivalries in Global Politics
Disaggregated mediation
In recent years, comprehensive peace agreements have reduced in frequency, and international mediation initiatives have become ‘disaggregated’ focused on brokering localised, sub-state dialogue processes, with issue-specific discussions, alongside attempts at national-level processes. This article focuses on three aspects of this shift: it (a) proposes disaggregated mediation as a conceptual framework to understand these processes, (b) outlines d…
“Discreet dominance”
Peacebuilding and International Security (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works)