Punsara Amarasinghe is a Ph.D. researcher at the institute of law and politics at Scuola Superiore Sant Anna in Pisa, Italy. Punsara holds a one-year research fellowship at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia and holds an LL.M in international law from the South Asian University in New Delhi. Punsara is particularly interested in post-Soviet studies and the politics of Russia. He regularly contributes to Modern Diplomacy, Countercurrents and Foreign Policy News and he has provided two working papers to Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Israel. His academic interests include the Russian approach to international law, TWAIL and the history of international relations.
The British Interests in the South China Sea and the New Face of Anglo-Sino Rivalry
China’s relations with the United Kingdom have been a strained one in recent years as both states have been involved in a media war by lampooning each other. Britain openly…
“Mask Diplomacy”: China’s Confucian Strategy in International Relations
It is by no means a hyperbolic phase to call the year 2020 as Anus Horribilis by virtue of the events that have befallen from the very first month. The…
Alexander Dugin’s Neo-Eurasianism in Putin’s Russia
The vacuum created in the ideological realm of Russia after it deviated from Communist ideology in the backdrop of Perestroika became a prime factor in Russia’s melancholy during its time…
Russia’s Ambivalent Position in International Law: A Civilizational Narrative
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Putin’s “January Sermon”: A Path to Democratization or a Russian Hoax?
The volatile political trajectory in Russia has always created awe among those interested in the geopolitical space of the Ruski Mir. However, history has repeatedly ascribed to Russia the characteristics…