Sri Lanka’s stability critical to New Delhi’s Indian Ocean ambitions
Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe This article first appeared in Future Directions International. Background A controversial advisory panel report, published by the United Nations in late March 2011, called...
View ArticleOutcomes from my think-piece … and thoughts on pictorial imagery
Michael Roberts Michael Roberts notes that pictures are by courtesy of Ministry of Defence – and that images can be read in different ways according to subjectivity and degrees of partisanship....
View ArticleGamini Goonesena, the unsung hero of Ceylon Cricket, passes away
Mahinda Wijesinghe This article first appeared in Critiquing Cricket on 6 August 2011. How many can lay claims of having captained his native land, played first-class cricket in England and Australia,...
View ArticleLargest-ever naval exercise signals new era in Indo-Lanka co-operation
Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe First published by Future Directions International on 28 September 2011. Background In a bid to strengthen naval and maritime interoperability and co-operation, India and Sri...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Colombo orders Islamist clerics to leave
Jahnu Russell, Future Directions International Associate Reprinted from Future Directions International, Strategic Weekly Analysis, 1 February 2012. Read the full story. The move by the Sri Lankan...
View ArticleAnother bead in the ‘string of pearls’?: interpreting Sri Lanka’s foreign...
Sergei De Silva-Ranasinghe In this article, Sergei De Silva-Ranasinghe argues that India should be differentiated from the West in analysing Sri Lanka’s apparent drift towards a strategic relationship...
View ArticleImplications of India’s decision on Sri Lanka UNHCR Resolution
Shanaka Jayasekara First published in Future Directions International on 4 April 2012 Background The Indian decision to vote in support of the March 2012 US-sponsored United Nations Human Rights...
View ArticleSri Lanka: still difficult to ‘bell the cat’
Sandy Gordon Commissioned by East Asia Forum and previously published in Future Directions International Sri Lanka is a small country of about the population of Australia. Its location astride the...
View ArticleSri Lanka’s renewed ethnic tension
Lindsay Hughes Sri Lanka appears to be moving towards renewed ethnic strife – this time between Buddhists and Muslims. Background The Muslim community makes up approximately ten per cent of Sri Lanka’s...
View ArticleLost and at sea: the asylum-seeker debate in Australia
Michael Roberts Electoral politics have swamped the debate on irregular migrants, the ‘boat-people’ that is, in Australia. There is no change of consequence in the contents of the debate, however....
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