Sri Lanka's Engagement with Global Superpowers

This book explores how Sri Lanka navigates its foreign policy, addresses security threats, and participates in regional organizations like SAARC and BIMSTEC to influence its geopolitical stance. Sri Lanka's strategic location in the Indian Ocean shapes its complex relationships with India, China, and the United States. Balancing these superpower influences while safeguarding its sovereignty and autonomy is a critical task for its policymakers. The purpose of this work is to look at Sri Lanka’s engagement with the Global superpowers and its geo-strategic and geo-political importance in the region. This sort of engagement shows how the bilateral tensions are also playing out in the extraterritorial region where Sri Lanka and the superpowers like USA, China, India and others are involved because of history, economics, and security reasons. Chapters in this proposed work look at the various facets of Sri Lanka’s engagements with the superpowers as well as with small nations. The book contains both thematic and bilateral issues. The readers will benefit from this comprehensive volume in following ways: (a) They will come to know Sri Lanka’s geo-strategic and geo-political importance in Asia; (b) They will get an idea of how India and China are trying to get involved and compete with one another with regard to Sri Lanka; (c) The readers will understand the role of the superpowers in relation to Sri Lanka; and (d) the readers will get aware of how the major super-powers are contesting against each other in Asia for their benefits.