China's Economic Diplomacy in South Asia: Leveraging One Resource for Multidimensional Influence
China, the emerging global economy of the 21st century, has capitalized hugely on its economic resources to influence foreign relations. Beginning in...
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Neighbours in disarray under Modi's foreign policy
India has had long-standing and working relations since the beginning of the independence of Bangladesh. India helped Bangladesh achieve their independence. Since then, the relationship has gained recognition and fostered the development of amicable ties between these two nations. A decade ago, when Narendra Modi ascended to the position of Prime M...
India is Israel’s Enabler in the Gaza War
There was a time when India’s voice carried moral gravity in the world — a time when it dared to speak against empires, racial domination, and foreign...
China, Myanmar and Bangladesh Rail Corridor: Rewiring Bangladesh’s Strategic Geography
Geography is never neutral in international politics; it either empowers states or disciplines them. For Bangladesh, geography has long functioned as...
Prospects and Challenges of Bangladesh in BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
The main dialogue of Bangladesh’s foreign policy is friendship to all, malice towards none. Nothing in international politics is permanent. With the p...
The Iran-Saudi Deal and China’s Diplomatic Coup in the Middle East
In the picture published by Al-Jazeera, Shamkhani and Ayban are seen shaking hands with smiles. And China’s senior diplomat Wan Yi is standing between...
Henry Kissinger Uncovered : Peeling Back the Layers of a Diplomatic Enigma
Not only in Bangladesh but also in most of the countries of this subcontinent, we cannot see so many people who reach 100 years old at this time. We m...
Ganges Treaty and Bangladesh’s Sovereignty
Rivers rarely remain mere rivers in South Asia. They become borders, instruments of survival, and, at times, quiet weapons of statecraft. Nowhere is t...
The Alaska Summit: Trump, Putin, and the Crumbling Game of Western Principles
There are moments in geopolitics that crystallize contradictions so vividly that they can no longer be ignored. The recent summit in Alaska between Do...
Resource Statecraft and the Reconfiguration of Eurasian Power
The White House meeting on November 6, 2025 — when President Donald Trump hosted the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and U...
The Looming Inferno on the Naf: Bangladesh’s Fragile Border Security
In the restless hills and riverine corridors along Bangladesh’s southeastern frontier, a storm is gathering. What began as an internal conflict in Mya...
New Equation of Japan-Bangladesh Bilateral Relations
The introduction to the Diplomatic Bluebook-2023 guidelines, which were released by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in mid-April, was authore...
China's Soft Power Policy Towards Bangladesh
In the 20th century, war was fought on land, and in the 21st century, war will be fought on water. Hence, the 21st century is termed the “Naval Centur...
Trump’s Board of Peace and the Future of Small States
When power begins to speak more loudly than principle, the vocabulary of international politics changes. Institutions become instruments, ceasefires b...
Cricket diplomacy caught in a political crossfire
Cricket, a sport that ignites passion across South Asia, finds itself ensnared in the complex and often fraught relationship between India and Pakista...
India's Diplomatic Tightrope: Mastering the geopolitical chessboard of Russia Ukraine, and the West
Prime Minister Modi's visit to Ukraine this week presents a significant challenge as India aims to maintain a multi-vector foreign policy while avoidi...
When a Handshake Becomes a Battlefield
Cricket has long been the fragile bridge between two adversaries whose rivalry is older than many of their modern institutions. For decades the pitch—...
Rohingya Repatriation Quandary: Arakan Army’s Role in Rakhine
In 2017, the world bore witness to a horrifying and inhumane tragedy. Myanmar's military launched a campaign targeting specific ethnic groups, forcibl...
Arakan: A Lost Land or a Future Province?
The geopolitical landscape of Myanmar’s Rakhine State has undergone a seismic shift with the rapid rise of the Arakan Army (AA). Once a marginalized i...