US SUCCESS IN VENEZUELA!
byAfter sixteen years of ascending to power, Hugo Chavez’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela got the taste of defeat at the National Assembly election held on 6 December 2015. Venezuela’s…
NEW CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OF NEPAL
byScholars argue that Nepal possess limited geopolitical importance of its own. Adopting strategic options like Balancing and Bandwagoning would be too risky for putting its sovereignty at the hands of…
A TALE OF TWO PEOPLE
byA recent event of the killing of a Japanese citizen in Bangladesh has left the people of the two countries in a state of bewilderment, shock and distress. While the…
INTERROGATING GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISIS
byThe global refugee crisis of 2015 is indeed an unprecedented one considering its level of intensity. It would not be inappropriate to call this a ‘man-made’ humanitarian crisis. The crisis…
STALEMATE ON HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION
byA year back, I, along with a few of my fellows, worked on a project about great power responsibility and the evolving nature of the norm of humanitarian intervention, reflecting…
India and China’s Rampant Onslaught on Rivers
byBangladesh lies on the confluence of three major rivers of Asia, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Meghna. The watershed basins of these rivers cover the center, north and northeastern…
ERDOĞAN’S TURKEY: A FAIR DEFEAT AND UNFAIR ELECTION
byThis article is being written during a time period during which everyone wonders how the escalation between Russia and Turkey is going to end. The Turkish shooting down of a…
Ravishing Rakhaine – Part 1
byFrom the land of the “Monkey’s Egg” Promoted by advocacy groups and social media the country came out of the Pandora’s isolation box some 5 years ago and is rapidly…