Amarnath Amarasingam

Colombo, End of war | 5 years on, Human Security, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Life in the Open-Air Panopticon: Surveillance and the Social Isolation of Ex-LTTE Combatants in Sri Lanka

Image from SL Online News “You have to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness,…

Amarnath Amarasingam on 05/20/201405/13/2014

Colombo, Features, International, International Relations, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Whose Arms Will Embrace You? The United States and the Beijing Consensus

China’s President Hu Jintao shakes hands with Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sanya, Hainan province, April 10, 2008. Image by Reuters, courtesy Transcurrents. The United States is increasingly playing a game of…

Amarnath Amarasingam on 04/13/201204/13/2012