Reading Time: 20 min read LKI’s Adam Collins and Malinda Meegoda explore ways Sri Lanka can develop and expand its economic links with countries in the Latin American regions.

Reading Time: 16 min read LKI’s Nilupul Gunawardena discusses how it is in Sri Lanka’s best interest to engage with the major powers of the Indo-Pacific, through continued cooperation in all areas that could benefit Sri Lanka.

Reading Time: < 1 min read LKI’s Malinda Meegoda explores Autonomous weapons in the South Asian context: Risks and countermeasures in the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report titled The Impact of Artificial Intelligence On Strategic Stability And Nuclear Risk.

Reading Time: < 1 min read With China increasing its soft power and foreign aid during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sri Lanka’s experience of BRI projects provides useful lessons for others. See this recently published Chatham House paper on Chinese Investment and the BRI in Sri Lanka.

Reading Time: < 1 min read In this journal article, LKI’s Ganeshan Wignaraja  examines the gains for South Asian economies from integrating with East Asia and India’s role in this process. 

Reading Time: < 1 min read In this selected paper, LKI’s Natalie Klein utilises a stakeholder identification theory, to identify and prioritise the interests of different actors from the perspective of the judge in reaching decisions to advance the goals of UNCLOS dispute settlement.

Reading Time: < 1 min read In a chapter on the book titled ‘Radicalization in South Asia : Context, Trajectories and Implications’, LKI’s Anishka De Zylva and Barana Waidyatilaka looks at counter-radicalization in Sri Lanka.

Reading Time: < 1 min read In an article on the journal titled “Diplomacy and World Affairs”, LKI’s Sandunika Hasangani and Professor Nayani Melegoda, Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo, discusses how the open Indo Pacific Strategy promotes peace and stability in the region.

Reading Time: < 1 min read In an article published by The Asia Dialogue, LKI’s Pabasara Kannangara discusses how by leveraging global initiatives such as the BRI, Sri Lanka may be able to stay ahead of the competition and achieve its ambition of becoming a major hub.

Reading Time: < 1 min read In a chapter, on the book titled ‘Managing Domestic and International Challenges and Opportunities in Post-conflict Development: Lessons from Sri Lanka’, LKI’s Ganeshan Wignaraja explores the economic implications of the RCEP for South Asia through case studies of post-conflict Sri Lanka and India.