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    Punsara Amarasinghe

    Punsara is a PhD researcher at Institute of law and politics at Scuola Superiore Sant Anna in Pisa, Italy. After having obtained LL.B from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2015, he went on to study LL.M in International Law and Legal Theory at South Asian University in New Delhi, India under SARRC scholarship. He graduated LL.M with a Distinction in 2017 and his thesis titled –Evaluating the Concept of Justice in Medieval Hinduism with Thomas Aquinas- was presented before Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka in the same year. After serving as a visiting lecturer at Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo for a short time, he spent a year as a research fellow at Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. His research areas include History of International Law, TWAIL Scholarship, Critical Legal Studies focusing on Human Rights, Classical Hindu Law and Colonial Legal History in South Asia. Besides his affiliation to International Law, he shares a passion in oriental religions. PhD research of Punsara deals with Social Economic Rights in the Global South and Neo-Liberalism. Punsara is a life member of Royal Asiatic Society

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  • Book review: Buddhism & Political Theory0

    • Commentary, Reviews
    • October 15, 2020

         Matthew J. Moore. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. 198 pp. (hardcover), US $78.00, ISBN 978-0-19-046551-3.   by Punsara Amarasinghe     15 October 2020 Any attempt in creating connectivity between Buddhism and politics may stand as a paradoxical endeavour with the common depiction on Buddhism as a philosophy which seeks the liberation

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  • Mare Nostrum for the Indian Ocean and Sri Lanka’s “India First” foreign policy0

    • Commentary
    • September 11, 2020

      by Punsara Amarasinghe     11 September 2020 Sri Lanka has been often portrayed as being in the crossroads of geopolitical encounters with powerful nations throughout its history and its unique geographic location in the Indian ocean closer to the Indian mainland, yet distinct from it has made the island’s destiny extremely intertwined with India.

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  • Book Review: Kautilya and Non Western IR Theory by Deepshikha Shahi0

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    • January 28, 2020

    by Punsara Amarasinghe 29 January 2020 The international relations and political theory academia in modern world is mainly constructed by the narratives of Western civilization. Starting from Greeks to bio politics of Foucault the theories we reverently study is confined to the discourse coming from a different civilizational root which curtails our gaze to appreciate

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