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Patrick Mendis

  • Associate-in-Research, Harvard University, Freelance
Washington, D.C.
As seen in: MSN Poland, Harvard International Review, Asian Affairs: An American Review, South China Morning Post, Salon, Foreign Policy Magazine, Georgetown Journal, Yahoo, Pioneer Press, RealClear Politics and
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The Mahaweli doctrine

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By Patrick Mendis
| The Morning Verified
Water as foreign policy in Sri Lanka’s national renaissance If King Parakramabahu I were alive today, he might ask: has Sri Lanka forgotten the foreign policy that once made the island prosperous, secure, and connected to the wider world? The great King understood that water, commerce, and diplomacy were inseparable.
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What Minnesota taught a Buddhist-Catholic immigrant about America at 250

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By Patrick Mendis
| MinnPost Verified
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, I find myself reflecting on a question that has shaped much of my life: What sustains a republic so that it does not turn its power against its people? For me, the answer begins in Minnesota. When I arrived in the resort town of Perham in northern Minnesota as its first American Field Service (AFS) exchange student from Sri Lanka in the late 1970s, I brought with me the values of two spiritual traditions.
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The Vatican triangle: The Holy See, Poland, and Sri Lanka

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By Patrick Mendis
| The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) Verified
View(s): By Prof. Patrick Mendis KRAKÓW, Poland: As the famous idiom goes, “all roads lead to Rome”; however, few places illustrate this connection more vividly than Sri Lanka—the “Grand Central Station of the Indian Ocean” that has connected cultures, religions, empires, and ideas for millennia. Among the most fascinating yet least-explored chapters of this story is the trilateral relationship linking Sri Lanka, the Holy See, and Poland.
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