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Hambanthota: Revival of Maritime Silk Route Indo-Pacific Strategy, Power Rivalry in the Region and its Impact on Sri Lanka
(2020)There is a significant shift in the United States’ focus from Middle East to South Asia and more towards South East Asia, which is now termed as the Indo-Pacific Region along with a considerable change in their foreign ... -
The Impact of Leader Images in Sri Lanka’s Foreign Policy Making from 2005 to 2019
(2020)Any leader of a country, as its foreign policy executive (FPE), may perceive systemic stimuli with surgical precision, hence positioning his country in a foreign policy trajectory, which in turn facilitates the realization ... -
Emerging CBRNE Threat from Industrial and Medical Fields to the National Security of Sri Lanka
(2020)Number of manufacturing industries and medical institutions in Sri Lanka are using variety of CBRNE agents that could cause severe damage if those agents are released to the environment due to behavioural patterns such as ... -
The First War of Unification in Sri Lanka: A Critical Analysis
(2020)The war fought between King Duttagamini and King Elara in the 1st Century BC was commonly known as the first war of unification in Sri Lanka. Until then, the country has not been referred to by the historians as a single ... -
Re-thinking the Sri Lankan Approach of Countering Islamist Violent Extremism
(2020)With the rise of Islamic State (IS), South Asian terrorist groups have been vehemently influenced since many of the terror groups such as Tanẓim Ansar al-Tawheed fi Bilad al-Hind, Tehreek-e-Khilafat, Jundullah etc. have ... -
Prospects of Improving Civil-Military Integration to Address Maritime Drug Trafficking in Sri Lanka
(2020)Centrality of its location in east west sea lanes has placed Sri Lanka in both advantageous and disadvantageous positions in the context of national security. Though Sri Lanka does not have an immediate threat for ... -
The Significance of Co-operative Maritime Diplomacy to Curb Transnational Maritime Crimes in Sri Lanka
(2020)In this paper, the researcher attempts to research contemporary requirement of Sri Lanka to build better international relationship with countries through co-operative maritime diplomacy, in order to curb the transnational ... -
Recruitment Rhetoric: Media Strategies of the Islamic State and Al-Qa`ida
(2020)Salafi-Jihadi information operations are designed to manipulate, radicalize, and recruit from the global Muslim population. This paper examines the global outreach operations of prominent Salafi-Jihadi groups, in an ... -
Holistic Framework for Migrating Military Applications into Cloud Computing and Ensuring National Security and National Growth of Sri Lanka
(2020)The golden rule and principle in today’s digital world is ‘right to gather information and right to distribute it in right time’. When it comes to military related operations whether security operations in own country or ... -
Safety of Life at Sea: Current Status of Sri Lanka
(2020)Asia is rising as the global economic power. Consequently, seaborne activities including flow of maritime trade container port activities, cruise industry as well as the fishery activities are increasing in the Indian ... -
Human Resource Functions of the Tank Culture in Sri Lanka
(2020)The human resource which evolved with the functionalities of the ancient tank culture of Sri Lanka is the research focus of this paper. According to Mahawamsa, paddy cultivation was the lifeline of the Sri Lankan economy ... -
Introduction of Nuclear Power Plants to Sri Lanka: National Growth and Security Perspectives
(2020)Nuclear technology is a vibrant application in the power and energy sector all over the world. At present more than 450 nuclear power plants (NPP) are contributing more than one-tenth of electricity generation all over ... -
Returns to Old Eurasian Heartland: China’s New Strategic Game towards Central Asia in 21st Century
(2020)The China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) position of Central Asia is in a crucial point and it is more vital as the hub of cross regional, long distance loops of trade, investment, and infrastructure development. In this ...