Dr David Lewis - Staff Profile

NameDr David Lewis
Contact PositionSenior Research Fellow
Room and BuildingT0.1g, Ashfield
Email Addressd.lewis1@bradford.ac.uk

Research Areas

David Lewis is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Peace Studies. He has research interests in the areas of peacebuilding, security, political change and conflict, and has considerable field experience in Central Asia, the Caucasus and South Asia. Before working in Bradford, David worked at the International Crisis Group in Central Asia and in Sri Lanka.

His publications have focused on political change and the dynamics of authoritarian regimes in Central Asia. His recent book The Temptations of Tyranny in Central Asia (Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2008) examined the impact of Western policy on the region in the aftermath of 9/11. David is also an active adviser and consultant on political engagement and programming in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

David has also been working on the impact of global geopolitical change on peace and conflict norms and practices, most recently in relation to the conflict in Sri Lanka. Within the same research framework, David has been awarded a British Academy grant to study shifting international norms within the OSCE and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. David has also been a lead researcher on the EU FP7 Multipart project, on the role of the EU in post-conflict reconstruction

Other Professional Interests

Board member, International Security Information Service, Europe (ISIS-Europe), http://www.isis-europe.org.

Bibliography

Books

  • The Temptations of Tyranny in Central Asia. London/New York: Hurst/University of Columbia Press, 2008.

Journal Articles

  • 'The failure of  a liberal peace: Sri Lanka's counter-insurgency in global perspective', Conflict, Security and Development, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 647-672.
  • 'High Times on the Silk Road: The Central Asian Paradox', World Policy Journal, Spring 2010, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 39–49.
  • 'The dynamics of regime change: domestic and international factors in the 'Tulip Revolution', Central Asian Survey, 2008, Vol. 27, No. 3-4., pp. 265-277.
  • 'Resources and Rivalry in the 'Stans', World Policy Journal, Fall 2008, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 125–135.

Book chapters

  • 'Kyrgyzstan' in Donnacha Ó Beacháin & Abel Polese, The Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics.  London, New York: Routledge, 2010.
  • 'The dynamics of regime change: domestic and international factors in the 'Tulip Revolution' in S. Cummings (Ed), Domestic and international perspectives on Kyrgyzstan's 'Tulip Revolution': Motives, Mobilization and Meanings. London, New York: Routledge, 2010.
  • 'Uzbekistan: Authoritarianism and Conflict', in M. Mekenkamp, P. van Tongeren, H. van de Veen (Eds), Searching for Peace in Central and South Asia. Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner, 2002.

Selected Policy Reports

  • 'Sri Lanka's Conflict: The Muslim Question', International Crisis Group, March 2007.
  • 'Sri Lanka: The Failure of the Peace Process', International Crisis Group, November 2006.
  • 'Kyrgyzstan: After the Revolution',  International Crisis Group, May 2005.
  • 'Repression and Regression in Turkmenistan: A New International Strategy', International Crisis Group, November 2004.
  • 'Political Transition in Kyrgyzstan: Problems and Prospects', International Crisis Group, August 2004.
  • 'The Failure of Reform in Uzbekistan: Ways Forward for the International Community', International Crisis Group,  March 2004.  
  • 'Uzbekistan's Reform Program: Illusion or Reality?', International Crisis Group, February 2003.
  • 'Kyrgyzstan's Political Crisis: An Exit Strategy', International Crisis Group, August 2002.  
  • 'The OSCE in Central Asia: A New Strategy', International Crisis Group, September 2002.
  • 'The Effectiveness of OSCE Missions: The Case of Uzbekistan', CRU Occasional Paper, The Hague, Clingendael Institute, August 2002.

Selected papers and presentations

  • 'EU policy towards Central Asia', Open Society Foundations/European Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin.
  • September 2010: 'Kyrgyzstan and Western Policy Towards Central Asia', Chatham House, London.
  • March 2010: 'After the liberal peace: politics and counterinsurgency in post-conflict Sri Lanka', 60th Political Studies Association Annual Conference
  • Edinburgh UK
  • December 2009: 'The failure of a liberal peace: Sri Lanka's counterinsurgency in  global perspective', BISA Annual Conference, Leicester.
  • October 2009: 'Liberal norms and conflict resolution: from liberal peacebuilding to counterinsurgency', Millennium conference, LSE.
  • September 2008: 'Western policy in Central Asia', International Institute for Strategic Studies (London).
  • March 2008:  'Central Asian Security Issues', Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
  • February 2005: 'Problems of Regional Security', Visiting Professorship at UN University for Peace, Costa Rica.
  • September 2004: 'Elites and Political Transition in Central Asia', NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Leiden, the Netherlands
  • March 2004: 'The Security Environment in Central Asia', UN Conference on Small Arms and Light Weapons, Almaty.
  • May 2004:  'Challenges for U.S. Policy in Central Asia', Open Society Institute, New York.
  • July 2003, 'Radical Islam in Central Asia', Brookings Institute, Washington, DC.
  • July 2003, 'Islam in Central Asia', IFRI, Paris.
  • June 2003: 'Prospects for Democratisation in Central Asia', Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul.