Maxwin Paul Rayen

Why does Sri Lanka maintain one of the world’s largest standing armies over a decade after the civil war? My new article at @E_IR e-ir.info/2025/07/16/mil…

A very readable and rewarding book absent of unecessary legal jargon. The flaws of international law stems from the contradictory nature of liberalism (i.e., its inability to reconcile indiviudal liberty and social order). 1/5

The Cholas of South India are NOT understudied. If someone tells you this then they are either ignorant or lying. Some breakthrough findings wrt state formation, maritime empires, mercantile societies, emerged from studies of the medieval Cholas. Follow this 🧵 to know more!

#NEWS 🧵 | As of 27 Jul, the ongoing excavation at the Chemmani-Siththupaththi mass grave in #SriLanka has uncovered 101 skeletal remains—incl. those of children & infants. The @ICJ_Asia calls for transparent, victim-centred investigations that comply with intl' law & standards—

The Theoretical Minimum - by Leonard Susskind

Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - @CambridgeUP, August 2025 cambridge.org/gb/universityp…

The oldest known documentary on #BlackJuly1983 — a brutal anti-Tamil pogrom in Sri Lanka. Thousands of Tamil homes, shops, and lives were destroyed in state-backed violence. Watch. Remember. Resist. #SriLanka #TamilGenocide #NeverForget

Remembering the victims of anti Tamil progrom by the Sinhalese 42 years ago today. Secret mass burial sites are being still being discovered, the war against Tamils never ended. Sending strength to families who lost their loved ones and had to flee the country for their safety.

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Research Handbook on Intelligence and International Law by Russell Buchan, Iñaki Navarrete – new book out now #ECHR #UN #ICJ #Snowden #intellbooks @ElgarPublishing

IR Book of the Week! "Mobilizing the Past" by Steve Chan. Many point to the "Thucydides Trap" when thinking about the prospect of war b/w USA & China. But history can be distorted and can itself distort. It must be handled with care when informing policy amazon.com/Mobilizing-Pas…

🚨 Military Governance in Post-War Sri Lanka: Revisiting the Logic of Downsizing More than a decade after Sri Lanka’s civil war ended in 2009, the country still maintains one of the world’s largest standing armies. This enduring militarisation cannot be explained by conventional…

Important piece by @maxwinrayen92 on why Sri Lanka's army remains (and will remain) bloated. The army is an instrument for maintaining a centralized Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist vision of the state, entrenching an ethnocratic order e-ir.info/2025/07/16/mil…

I think, by law, all homes should have one of these

Dear math students, math enthusiasts and anyone curious... This book is really a pure joy to read. It is a story about a very eccentric Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös (pronounced air-dish ?). He lived out of a suitcase, apparently, and traveled the world to connect with