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Ramesh Premaratne Ganohariti
Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. R.J. Premaratne Ganohariti
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9506
- r.j.premaratne.ganohariti@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3981-4207
Ramesh Ganohariti is as a lecturer for the Bachelor Security Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs since 2017. In 2023 he obtained his PhD in Political Science from Dublin City University, Ireland.
Ramesh Ganohariti is a lecturer at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. Previously, he worked as a Tutor for the BSc in Security Studies at the Institute. In 2023 he obtained his PhD in Politics and International Relations from Dublin City University, Ireland. Using the lenses of multiplicity and human/state security, his PhD explored the relationship between contested statehood, citizenship regimes, and the politics of belonging, and sought to explain how the phenomenon of citizenship has been constructed in three aspirant states in the former Soviet space: Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria.
Ramesh holds an MSc in International Relations and Diplomacy (Leiden University) and a Bachelor of Social Science in Culture, Society, and Media (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan).
Research interests: citizenship & statelessness, ethnic identity politics, de facto states, statehood & self-determination, human security.
Lecturer
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- Ganohariti R. (2024), (Non)recognition of legal identity in aspirant states: evidence from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria, Citizenship Studies 27(7): 817-834.
- Jain N., Bauböck R., Džankić J., Knott E., Kingston L., Premaratne Ganohariti R.J, Jacob-Owens T., Manby B., Spiro P., Lori N. & Erez L. (2023), Weaponised citizenship: should international law restrict oppressive nationality attribution?: working paper (No. 54). Italy: European University Institute (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies). [other].
- Premaratne Ganohariti R. (9 October 2023), Citizenship and contested statehood: a comparative analysis of aspirant states in the former Soviet space (Dissertatie. School of Law and Government, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, Dublin City University). Supervisor(s): Visoka G. & Ó Beacháin D.
- Ganohariti R. (2021), Citizenship, Territoriality, and Post-Soviet Nationhood: The Politics of Birthright Citizenship in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova: written by Maxim Tabachnik, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. xvi +. Pp. 289 pp. €72.79 (hbk). ISBN 978-3-030-12882-1, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 27(1): 102-103.
- Düerkop S. & Ganohariti R. (2021), Sovereignty in sports: non-sovereign territories in international football, International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics : .
- Ganohariti R. (2021), Politics of Passportization and Territorial Conflicts. In: Richmond O. & Visoka G. (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Ganohariti Ramesh & Dijxhoorn Ernst (2020), Para- and Proto-Sports Diplomacy of Contested Territories: CONIFA as a Platform for Football Diplomacy, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 15(3): 329-354.
- Ganohariti R. (2019), Dual citizenship in De Facto States: comparative case study of Abkhazia and Transnistria, nationalities papers 48(1): 175-192.
- Country Expert (Global Citizenship Observatory)