1. Interview given by Sir Arthur C. Clarke to the Sunday Observer Magazine, The Sunday Observer, 14 December 1997.
2. D. Sriskandarajah (2006) ‘Development, Inequality and Conflict in Multiethnic Developing Countries’, Oxford University; B. Harff and T. Gurr (2004) Ethnic Conflict in World Politics (Oxford: Westview), p. 97.
3. B. Buzan (1998) ‘Conclusions: System versus Units of Theorising about the Third World’ in S. Neuman (ed.) International Relations Theory and the Third World (New York: St. Martin’s Press), p. 220
4. R. Jackson (1990) Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), p. 21; Kolsto (2006). Domestic sovereignty refers to the social contract which, when questioned, implies that political communities are excluded from the idea of the state. For a state to be legitimate, it further needs to have a physical basis and an institutional expression. See Holsti (1996: 83).
5. J. Spencer (ed.) (1990) Sri Lanka: History and the Roots of Conflict (London: Routledge), p. 3.