Kadira Pethiyagoda
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Biography
Publications
Dr Kadira Pethiyagoda was born in Sri Lanka and migrated to Australia as a child. He is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. Pethiyagoda was a diplomat, visiting scholar at Oxford University and adviser to a Shadow Foreign Minister. He is publishing a book on Indian foreign policy.
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Sri Lanka: A small-state response to a multipolar Asia
Colombo recognises that great power-small power relations are, in some ways, returning to the situation during the Cold War when small states could always turn to the other bloc.