Strategic significance of the island state of Sri Lanka
thesis
posted on 2003-01-01, 00:00authored byRamesh. Somasunderam
The thesis examines the major diplomatic documents of Sri Lanka from the mid-eighteenth century to the present era, within the theoretical framework of realism, pertaining to international relations. It covers the period of the Anglo-French naval rivalry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, up to the "Cold War"