US strategic interests in & prospects for Bangladesh
byIt is a scrumptious paradox that the US , which in 1971 sent its the 7th fleet to the Bay of Bengal to desist India from militarily assisting the Bangladesh…
Hemispheres
Gaza Crisis 2014: Consequences and Possible Responses
byIntroduction Even though the Israeli assaults on Palestinians have made headlines of media tens of thousand times, raised political as well as academic debates, made rallies and processions of civilians,…
Gwadar Vs Chahbahar Port: A Race for Dominance
byIntroduction Building state of the art ports and taking strongholds for monitoring the strategic locations and shipping the resources by cutting the distances have been a major feature around the…
Myanmar Emerging: Possibilities and Options for Bangladesh
byIshtiaque Alam When, in 2009, President Barack Obama took office he inherited wide array of overwhelming foreign policy challenges. An out of control war in Afghanistan, a shaky counterterrorism partnership…
Sino-Russia Strategic Rapprochement: A New Frontier Unveiling?
byCrimea has been at the center of one of Europe’s greatest geopolitical crisis since the end of the Cold War. The upheaval was the fallout of months of anti-government protests…
BANGLADESH-MYANMAR RELATIONS : STRATEGIC IMPERATIVES
byMyanmar has been diversifying its foreign orientation in the context of rapidly-changing regional geopolitical dynamics since the military dominated Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) assumed power in November 2010….
“Visa-free South Asia” may be “premature idea”
bySpeakers at an international seminar in Dhaka held on 18 January opined that South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) couldn’t fulfil the peoples’ expectation because the leaders of the…
South Asia 1540 Reporting
byUNSC Resolution 1540 national reports of South Asian countries This report is part of a collection examining implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (South Asia 1540) , which…