Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Land
Razeen Sally, 17 February 2026 14.00 GMT Online
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Returning to Sri Lanka Through a Travel Memoir
Razeen Sally is the author of Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Island. He taught international political economy and international trade first at the LSE and then at the NUS. I am “half-half”, the firstborn of an Anglo-Welsh mother and Sri Lankan-Muslim father. They met on a ship in 1955; my mother came…
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Faxian and China’s Efforts to Court Sri Lanka
Marcus Andreopoulos is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation and a Subject Matter Expert with the Global Threats Advisory Group at NATO’s Defence Education Enhancement Programme Having elected a new president and government at the end of last year, Sri Lanka looks set to chart a new course in its approach to foreign policy. Since…
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Letter from Sri Lanka: Reconciliation, Resources and Elephants
Richard Fell CVO is a former ambassador and Books Review Editor of the Asian Affairs Journal. Here, he reports on a recent visit to Sri Lanka. I recently spent two weeks in Sri Lanka with a distinguished group of New Zealanders and Australians. Though primarily a holiday, we had opportunities to discuss developments in the…
