Chapter 5: Domestic Political Stability, Leadership, and Economic Crime

The following sections are included:

• Sri Lanka’s Presidential Election 2019: A New President and the Politics of Balances

  • Introduction

  • Reasons for Gotabaya’s victory

  • Adopting global best practices

  • Value of democracy and technocracy

  • Foreign policy management

  • Conclusion

• Mahinda Rajapaksa’s 50 years in politics? Triple Threats and Balancing Triple Spheres in Sri Lanka

  • 50 years of Rajapaksa politics

• Sri Lanka and the World: Whither Political Prudence?

• Witnessing the 30/1 Debacle

• U-Turns are Difficult

• Comparing Crises: Presidency and Power in a Changing World Order

• Importance of Meaningful Co-operation in Preventing and Interdicting Economically Motivated Crimes and Misconduct: The Sri Lankan Perspective

  • Strengthening interagency cooperation

  • Fighting transnational security threats — The 4/21 terror attack

  • War on drugs

  • Sri Lanka on the “Grey List”

  • From action-centered to actor-centered

  • Three legislations to fight economic crime

  • National Action Plan for combating Bribery and corruption in SL

  • Conclusion

• Economic Crimes and the P118 of Sri Lanka

• Unexplained Wealth and For What Purpose? A Sri Lankan Perspective

  • Corruption by public authorities

  • Panama Papers

  • Unexplained Wealth Orders

  • Conclusion

• Authentic Leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.