International Studies Students’ Research Symposium (ISSRS): Recent submissions

  • Rethinking South Asian Integration: An Analysis on Challenges and Prospects of Regional Economic Integration in South Asia. 
    Abeyrathne, D.M.L.K. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Regional Integration is a process of overcoming barriers that divide neighbouring countries, by common accord, and of jointly managing shared resources and assets. Essentially, it is a process by which groups of countries ...
  • The US policy towards Iran’s Nuclear Enrichment. 
    Ariyawansa, H.L.R. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    The relations between the United States and Iran are going from bad to worse. According to various studies, it has revealed that the ‘mistrust’ is a hunting ground for this harsh relation between these two states. In this ...
  • Piracy and the maritime security in Southeast Asia. 
    Senarathne, I.G.D.M. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Piracy is considered a critical maritime security threat in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is a vast region of Asia which is situated to the east of the Indian subcontinent and south of China. Piracy is a reflection of a ...
  • A Long Standing Relationship Ambivalent of being Rewarded: Turkey’s accession into the European Union. 
    Gunasekara, H.D. R. M. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    As an integral part of Europe for over centuries, Turkey has been knocking at the European Union’s (EU) door since 1963 when it became an associate member of the European Economic Community. Despite the relations between ...
  • Migration and Poverty in Sri Lanka: special reference to Polonnaruwa District. 
    Ranamuka, R.A.H.K. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Sri Lanka has inherited a glorious and a proud history. Its’ people have spent simple lifestyles mostly based on agriculture and nurtured many cultural and socio-economic values. With the introduction of the open economy ...
  • Examine the Naval Supremacy in the Indian Ocean and its Impact on the Security of Small States: special reference to China and India. 
    Marakawaththa, I. A. G. G. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    The expanding economic and political powers of China and India have led each country to extend its naval operations into the other’s region of influence in order to safeguard and national interests. The continued operational ...
  • The Threat of Maritime Piracy in the Indian Ocean and Its Implications on Sri Lanka: A Jurisdictional Analysis. 
    Fernando, N. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Piracy is universally accepted as hostis humani generis and is also a transnational crime which imposes serious threats to maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region. Since Sri Lanka is strategically posited in the Indian ...
  • Cyber-attacks: The evolving threat landscape in Sri Lanka’s National Security. 
    Perera, W.M.Y. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    The 21st century Digital Age where the availability and accessibility of information reaching unprecedented levels has expanded the contexts from which national security challenges can emerge. Sri Lanka being ranked among ...
  • Reflection on the Great Power Politics in Sri Lankan Foreign Policy: Special Reference to China India Rivalry. 
    Priyadarshana, P. N. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Being a small nation Sri Lanka has long struggled to counterbalance its powerful neighbor India. This was often done by bringing in powers from outside of the region so it can fulfill its’ economic and security needs without ...
  • China- Sri Lanka Diplomatic Relations: analyzing means and ends of development policies in Sri Lanka. 
    Pushpamali, W.M.V. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    China has become the world’s second largest economy. Sri Lanka is a small economy that is ranked as a lower middle income country. China and Sri Lanka have extensive historical links, religious and cultural, economic and ...
  • The Economic Impacts of Labor migration: Case of Sri Lanka. 
    Dinushika, M.G.O. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Sri Lanka is a major labour sending country in Asia, with a high proportion of labour migrants employed as domestic and non-domestic with increasing remittances. Sri Lanka, being a low-middle income country with a total ...
  • A Study on Sri Lankan Labour Migration to South Korea. 
    Wijesooriya, W. A. I. C. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    For decades, the stereotypical Sri Lankan migrant worker has been a low-wage female domestic servant in Saudi Arabia or Lebanon. But the stereotype no longer represents the reality: since the late 1990’s nearly half of the ...
  • The Refugee Crisis: A European Policy Failure. 
    Nanayakkara, M.D. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    The outbreak of unprecedented number of people from Middle Eastern and African countries -fleeing from war, persecution, and unrelenting poverty-have been crossing borders into and within Europe, traversing the Mediterranean, ...
  • The New Face of Genocide in Sri Lanka. 
    Jayawardane, B.A.I. M. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Today the world is facing a new face of genocide. It is most commonly known as ‘poverty’. This can also be referred to a deadly viral disease and has escalated in to a global catastrophe. Still the modern form of genocide ...
  • Issues and Challenges of Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean” Case of Sri Lanka. 
    Jayaratnam, S.J.A. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    The countries in the Indian Ocean such as Sri Lanka face many maritime security challenges. Therefore, identification and analysis of the maritime security challenges that are being faced by Sri Lanka and the establishment ...
  • The Impact of ‘String of Pearls’ Strategy of China on Indo-China Relationship. 
    Aththanayake, A.R.S.S. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    India and China are the emerging super powers in the 21st century. From the independence there is an antagonistic relationship between the two states in case of Pakistan and border issues. This hostile situation has been ...
  • China’s Foreign Policy toward North Korea: the Nuclear Crisis. 
    Subasinghe, M. C. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    The North Korean nuclear issue has become a threat to the security of both Northeast Asia and even the world at large. As China has been widely perceived as North Korea’s “only ally” and the most economic and trading ...
  • The Impacts of Economic Development by Multinational Corporations on Developing Countries. 
    Mallawaarachchi, R.P. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    In today’s global economy Multinational Corporations (MNCs) are playing an important role especially in emerging markets. The simplest definition of a multinational corporation is an enterprise which possesses at least one ...
  • Nationalism or Regionalism: The Impacts of the Catalan secession on the Spanish region. 
    Thennakoon, A.S. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    The Catalan region is one of 17 autonomous regions in the Spanish mainland. Recently they had an independence referendum to declare themselves as a sovereign nation. But Spain's Constitutional Court has ruled illegal the ...
  • Applicability of International Peace Making Models to the Post War Era of Sri Lanka. 
    Ishaq, M.A.M. (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    This research is based on the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. Although it is said that there was no ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka it is an obvious fact that there was a long fought civil war in Sri Lanka. This research study ...

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