Punsara Amarasinghe is a post-doctoral researcher affiliated with Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa. He is a PhD holder in Public International Law from the Institute of Law, Politics and Development at Scuola Superiore Sant Anna (Sant Anna School for Advanced Studies) in Pisa, Italy. He holds LL.M. from the South Asian University, New Delhi, and completed his undergraduate studies in law at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

He completed another master's degree in international relations from the HSE, Moscow. He has held two visiting research fellowships at the Global Legal Studies Centre at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Sciences PO, Paris. He was affiliated with the Minerva Center for Strategic Studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem for a brief period in 2019.

In his classic work on geopolitics, former American Foreign Secretary Henry Kissinger praised Cardinal Richelieu for shrewd acumen, which kept the whole of central Europe at bay as part and parcel feature of French foreign policy. When Richelieu dwelled as a crafty statesman in the 18th-century psyche for his insatiable appetite for centralized policy and balance of power, the international community in the 21st century can see the same naked ambitions from a man sitting as an academic in Moscow. Sergey Karaganov (also written as Sergei Karaganov) is a senior professor of International Relations at Russia’s largest national research university, the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, whose contribution to the scholarship has earned him a reputation as a scholar of excellence. In a juncture of crossroads where the world is witnessing the genesis of a new axis consisting of Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China to challenge the dominance of the Atlantic alliance, understanding Karaganov is sensible for a better understanding of Russia’s foreign........

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