Rajni Gamage
Biographic Data
| ID | 4251841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajni Gamage |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajni |
| FAMILY NAME | Gamage |
| SIGNATURE | GAMAGE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0655-7718 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
One Year of the NPP in Sri Lanka: Realising the Anti-corruption ‘Dividend’
One year after the National People's Power (NPP) came to power in Sri Lanka, the new government has embarked on anti-corruption as the central pillar of its reform agenda. Delivering tangible results from this initiative will be critical to maintaining the government’s legitimacy among an electorate still grappling with the economic hardships that followed the 2022 economic crisis and the austerity measures required under the IMF programme. The g…
Buddhist Civilisational Populism in Sri Lanka: Colonial Identity Formation, Post-War Othering, and Present Crises
In this paper, I discuss the evolution of Buddhist civilisational populism in modern Sri Lankan politics and civil society. I do this by historicising early forms of Buddhist civilisational populism in the country, during its occupation by the British Empire (1815-1945). As I discuss in this paper, some of the key concepts of "civilisationism" central to leading social and political movements in British Ceylon were a result of the disruptions cau…
Balancing and bandwagoning: Explaining shifts in Sri Lankan foreign policy
Analysis of Sri Lanka’s foreign policy over three decades (1977–2015) reveals a pattern of shifts from balancing to bandwagoning, and then back again to balancing. The more salient foreign policy issues during each administration fall broadly within the economic or security spheres. What are the key drivers of small state foreign policy – do systemic factors preside in general, and domestic factors prove inconsequential? Or are domestic factors a…
The Quest for Regional and Domestic Stability
Southeast Asian Affairs is the only one of its kind: a comprehensive annual review devoted to the international relations, politics, and economies of the region and its nation-states. The collected volumes of Southeast Asian Affairs have become a compendium documenting the dynamic evolution of regional and national developments in Southeast Asia from the end of the 'second' Vietnam War to the alarms and struggles of today. Over the years, the edi…
Buddhist Civilisational Populism in Sri Lanka: Colonial Identity Formation, Post-War Othering, and Present Crises
In this paper, I discuss the evolution of Buddhist civilisational populism in modern Sri Lankan politics and civil society. I do this by historicising early forms of Buddhist civilisational populism in the country, during its occupation by the British Empire (1815-1945). As I discuss in this paper, some of the key concepts of "civilisationism" central to leading social and political movements in British Ceylon were a result of the disruptions cau…
Balancing and bandwagoning: Explaining shifts in Sri Lankan foreign policy
Analysis of Sri Lanka’s foreign policy over three decades (1977–2015) reveals a pattern of shifts from balancing to bandwagoning, and then back again to balancing. The more salient foreign policy issues during each administration fall broadly within the economic or security spheres. What are the key drivers of small state foreign policy – do systemic factors preside in general, and domestic factors prove inconsequential? Or are domestic factors a…
The Quest for Regional and Domestic Stability
Southeast Asian Affairs is the only one of its kind: a comprehensive annual review devoted to the international relations, politics, and economies of the region and its nation-states. The collected volumes of Southeast Asian Affairs have become a compendium documenting the dynamic evolution of regional and national developments in Southeast Asia from the end of the 'second' Vietnam War to the alarms and struggles of today. Over the years, the edi…
Balancing and bandwagoning: Explaining shifts in Sri Lankan foreign policy
Analysis of Sri Lanka’s foreign policy over three decades (1977–2015) reveals a pattern of shifts from balancing to bandwagoning, and then back again to balancing. The more salient foreign policy issues during each administration fall broadly within the economic or security spheres. What are the key drivers of small state foreign policy – do systemic factors preside in general, and domestic factors prove inconsequential? Or are domestic factors a…
Buddhist Civilisational Populism in Sri Lanka: Colonial Identity Formation, Post-War Othering, and Present Crises
In this paper, I discuss the evolution of Buddhist civilisational populism in modern Sri Lankan politics and civil society. I do this by historicising early forms of Buddhist civilisational populism in the country, during its occupation by the British Empire (1815-1945). As I discuss in this paper, some of the key concepts of "civilisationism" central to leading social and political movements in British Ceylon were a result of the disruptions cau…
One Year of the NPP in Sri Lanka: Realising the Anti-corruption ‘Dividend’
One year after the National People's Power (NPP) came to power in Sri Lanka, the new government has embarked on anti-corruption as the central pillar of its reform agenda. Delivering tangible results from this initiative will be critical to maintaining the government’s legitimacy among an electorate still grappling with the economic hardships that followed the 2022 economic crisis and the austerity measures required under the IMF programme. The g…
Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (1 works) · Asian Studies and History (1 works)