Crossing the Diplomatic Line
By Dr. Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 24 August 2014 00:00 US President Barack Obama speaks about the US involvement in Iraq, as well as the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of […]
Indian political desires and Modi’s mode
By Dr Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 25 May 2014 00:00 India’s new Premier Narendra Modi should put behind him the ugly scenario of Gujarat in 2002 and display a different behavior to emerge as a true […]
The Hizmet Movement and Peacebuilding: Global cases
An address given in Washington DC at the Invitation of the Rumi Forum at the International Symposium, The Hizmet Movement and Peace building: Global cases, [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKB3aU0nivM] He titles his input: Paradigm of Service: The Narratives of the […]
India’s prosperity depends on healthy diplomatic relations
By Dr. Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 04 May 2014 00:00 Indian poll officials carry Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) from a distribution centre in Amritsar on April 29, 2014 on the eve of Lok Sabha – lower […]
Sovereignty and Regionalism
Please read full article here:The Nation ;Sunday- 2014.02.02 http://www.nation.lk/epaper/sunday/2014/02/02/index.html#7/z
Global policing and sovereignty
By Dr. Shanthikumnar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 19 January 2014 00:00 Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee member Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) holds up a small four-bladed remote controlled helicopter during a hearing about the future of unmanned […]
Global politics shifting foreign policy
By Dr. Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 05 January 2014 00:00 Sri Lanka’s foreign policy itself has changed and shaped in the context of the war it fought for thirty years. Foreign policy moved as the mode […]
Colonial Mindset and Foreign Policy
By Dr. Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 08 December 2013 00:00 http://www.nation.lk/edition/lens/item/23444-colonial-mindset-and-foreign-policy.html Edward said in his seminal work, Orientalism (1978), contended that not only the geopolitical domination, but also the intellectually domineering approaches of the colonial mindset […]
Post-conflict democracy
By Dr Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Visiting Lecturer, The University of Colombo There is speculation and argument about the concept of ‘post-conflict’ by political gurus. Some assume that it is the ‘end of conflict’ per se, while […]