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Nilanthi Samaranayake

Nilanthi Samaranayake

Nilanthi Samaranayake is the Director of the Strategy and Policy Analysis program at CNA, a nonprofit research organization in Arlington, VA. She has authored publications on Indian Ocean security issues and small states in international affairs, including China’s Engagement with Smaller South Asian Countries (U.S. Institute of Peace).

Latest from Nilanthi Samaranayake

Sri Lanka: Navigating Geopolitics, Regional Asymmetry, and a National Crisis Geopolitics & Diplomacy

Sri Lanka: Navigating Geopolitics, Regional Asymmetry, and a National Crisis

Sri Lanka, with its unique position in the center of…

Reviewing Chinese Engagement in South Asia Geopolitics & Diplomacy

Reviewing Chinese Engagement in South Asia

The Stimson Center’s latest South Asian Voices (SAV) series, “Instruments…