Category: Research

South Asia, home to a fifth of humanity, is one of the least integrated regions in the world. The intra-regional trade in South Asia accounts for only 5% of its total trade, manifesting a low degree of economic bonding in the...

What are the factors and conditions that propelled the shifts and changes in Sri Lanka’s foreign policy approach towards the Indian Ocean in the last 70 years? The paper argues that it can be explained in relation to the working...

Since the geo-strategic concept of Indian Ocean took its present form in the 16th century, the centrality of South Asia remained a conspicuous feature. However, at present, the concept of the Indian Ocean is being overshadowed...

The ascendancy of China to a great power status is perhaps the most striking feature of the changed distribution of economic and political power in global politics at the dawn of the 21st century. In order to trace the political...

Matters relating to the substance of democracy and the texture of civic space in Sri Lanka have emerged as focal issues in political discourse more than ever today, after seven decades of turbulent and checked course of...