An Analysis by Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake with Pascal Lottaz at Neutrality Studies Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake discusses the ongoing crises in South Asia and Sri Lanka, highlighting the impacts of digital…
The Iberian Peninsula including Spain, Portugal, and parts of France faced mysterious electricity outages last month. Spain had an extended countywide Blackout--the worst electricity failure in any developed country in…
There have been several geopolitical developments in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region. These include United States Vice President J.D Vance’s visit with his Indian origin wife, Usha and…
Leaders of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka have called again for a proper investigation into the Easter attacks staged six years ago. Meanwhile, a local political blame-game, starring Pillayan,…
Independence has been a long mirage in geostrategic Ceylon/ Sri Lanka where history seems to repeat itself as tragedy and farce in equal measure. This week, the geostrategic Indian Ocean…
There will be no honeymoon for the newly minted National People’s Power (NPP) Government that got a massive people’s mandate for debt justice. The storm blowing from Washington DC across…
At Annual Meetings in Washington last month International Monetary Fund head, Kristalina Georgieva claimed Sri Lanka as a debt restructuring ‘success’ story.[i] Left unsaid by the IMF’s Managing Director was…
In the run up to elections the post-Marxist National People’s Party (NPP), has run a high-gloss, foreign-funded, election campaign to market its policies as a ‘new dawn’. Remarkably, the NPP…
In the run up to elections President Ranil Wickramasinghe has portrayed his government’s Debt Sustainability Agreement (DSA) with the International Monetary Fund as a panacea for Sri Lanka’s globally networked…
With the world distracted by kinetic wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a hybrid economic proxy war against the Global South and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), for global connectivity…
With the wisdom of hindsight, the Root Causes of Sri Lanka’s first ever Sovereign Default, staged three years ago on the eve of 75 years of ‘Independence’ from the British…
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