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21st Century Great Game and its Actors: India’s Interests in Central Asia and its Repercussions in South Asia
(2017)In 2012 June India launched a “Connect Central Asia” policy which embodies India’s ardent concern over Central Asian states. This paper will show how this policy would undermine the regional stability of South Asia since ... -
Air Power: A Response Option to Counter the Challenges of Sub-Conventional Warfare Dynamics
(2017)Sub-conventional warfare refers to the grey region of the spectrum of conflict. Since inception the face of the sub-conventional warfare remains in a continuous transition due to the changing dynamics of technology, inte ... -
Bottom Trawling in Palk Bay Area: Human and Environmental Implications
(2017)Sri Lanka is an island positioned in a geo strategically decisive point in the Indian Ocean. Palk bay is a shallow and narrow strip of water between Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu, Palk Bay has a rich ecosystem which is being ... -
Changing Dynamics in the Indian Ocean: Geostrategic Competition and Challenges for Sri Lanka
(2017)The Indian Ocean has become an area for geostrategic competition since there ere are strategic security groupings and contest for influence. The uni-polar world dominated by the word`s sole super power, the USA, is being ... -
Dynamics in Cybersecurity: Challenges to Sri Lanka`s National Security
(2017)Technological developments in today`s world which take place annually, make technology accessible to individuals and communities that were previously not able to access it. The advent of mobile technology, its accessibil ... -
Emergence of Tamil Tiger Cells in Sri Lanka: A Comparative Analysis to Terrorism Perspective
(2017)Ethnic conflict had created political, economic, and security influences in Sri Lanka. From the late 1970s until 2009, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam known as LTTE conducted a massive violent campaign against the g ... -
Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Expectations of Sri Lanka Military Veterans
(2017)In Sri Lanka Army, there are soldiers retiring in the active age group of 40-45 and most of them are with lots of experience, skills, knowledge and potentials which could be utilized to enhance the country’s economy whil ... -
Establishing a Maritime Domain Awareness Center in Sri Lanka
(2017)In this paper researcher is interested to formulate a domestic Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Centre in Sri Lanka. MDA is situational awareness of the maritime environment. This could be achieved by gathering of real ti ... -
The Establishment of Defence Science and Technology in Sri Lanka
(2017)It is well understood that for a modern military to be effective it needs to have access to an advanced science and technology organisation specialising in defence related activities. This includes both project based an ... -
Impact of GIS Modelling in Military Operational Planning
(2017)The operation planning process takes considerable time and requires sound intelligence regarding the battlefield in preparing a successful operation plan. It is a globally accepted fact that sound planning and preparatio ... -
The Influence of Global Islam Radicalisation to Sri Lanka
(2017)The Threat of Global Islam Radicalisation to Sri Lanka’ is a paper submitted to the 10th KDU International Research Conference. This paper in its Introduction examines the background to conflicts in countries where Isla ... -
Political Polarization of the Indo-Lanka Fishery dispute and its Comprehensive Security Implications
(2017)Sri Lanka and India are two neighbouring states in the Indian Ocean, separated by the narrow strip of water that consists of the Palk Bay, and the Gulf of Mannar. The fishery dispute between the two states is a persisten ... -
Regional hegemony and small state survival: Re – examining Ceylon’s foreign policy under premier D.S Senanayake
(2017)Literature that deals with Ceylon's foreign policy during the D.S Senanayake administration (19481952) evinces a general hypothesis regarding the close relationship between the Ceylonese administration and the British go ... -
Securitization of National Borders: A Case Study of Sri Lankan Border Control Measures
(2017)National border is vital for survival of a state and protecting it is important for National security. Paying lip service to security of National borders will maintain the threat level to the National borders which in tu ... -
Sri Lanka between Geopolitical Interests of China and India
(2017)Sri Lanka has become a point of interest in the Indian Ocean in the 21st century due to her geostrategically attractive position. Precisely, the pearl of the Indian Ocean is now in dilemma due to the conflicting interest ... -
Strategic Importance of Blue Economy to Sri Lanka and Challenges
(2017)At the COP+21 conference, the idea of blue energy and blue economy first emerged as a component of green economy. At a time when the world is moving away from the Millennium goals towards a Sustainable Development, the e ... -
The Strategic Importance of Sri Lanka in Indian Ocean Region: Reference to String of Pearls Strategy
(2017)China’s interest in maritime silk route and continues energy flow to the country has resulted as “String of Pearls” across the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). In the 21st century, China came into the scenario of balancing the ... -
Strategy to Overcome Maritime Blindness: The Sri Lankan Case
(2017)The strategic location of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean not only make the island a vital connecting nod for the East-West maritime traffic, but also behaves as a centre to monitor the entire ocean space that spans to the ... -
Survival of Kandy before Three European Nations
(2017)This paper intends to trace the secret of survival of Knadyan kingdom till it fell down to the British in 1815. The innovational methods used by Kandyan since the day Kandy was attacked by Portuguese in later part of 16t ...