Bangladesh at UNGA 2024: Glitter, gold, and ground reality
Bangladesh desperately needed global attention to reap gold out of this moment of change.
1m ago
What the Rana Plaza tragedy means in 2024
Let’s visit this discussion on three levels of analysis on the local, national, and global scenarios and impacts.
7m ago
To catch a pirate
Today’s piracy further feeds upon those flows including petroleum and the growing numbers of African/Asian countries involved. Control is now imperative.
8m ago
Foreign policy quandary for Bangladesh: ‘Umbilical’ or ‘geopolitical’?
Bangladesh’s foreign inclinations increasingly sway between “umbilical” and “geopolitical” poles, as principles, policies and preferences compete for priority.
9m ago
The colour of war?
Today’s Red Sea skirmishes raise multifaceted concerns, which range from the war in Gaza widening and awakening old wounds, to geopolitical frontlines being rewritten by shifting chokepoints.
9m ago
Bangladesh as a ‘developed country’: ‘Graduating’ imperatives
“Graduation” has become a Bangladeshi buzzword. Journalists, scholars, and technocrats were working on that term even before November 24, 2021. On that day, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly green-signalled a possible exit from the “least developed country” (LDC) to join the “developing” list from 2026.
2y ago
9/11 anniversary, Afghanistan and values
“What goes around comes around” may be an apt and oft-used cliché, but in referencing 9/11 and Afghanistan, it only embitters. US President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from “forever wars” was supported by 54 percent of US adults, according to a September 4 Pew survey.
3y ago
May 19, 2018
Jerusalem - “A day which will live in infamy” (. . . if history is any guide)
US President Donald J Trump did not mince his words: President Harry S Truman, a Democrat, made the United States the first country to recognise Israel's statehood (May 14, 1948), yet his own December 6, 2017 decision to shift the US embassy to Jerusalem, the first country to do so, on May 14, 2018, may have converted the logical 1948 recognition decision into a 2018 conflict invitation.
May 12, 2018
Lighting Marx's Fire - Revolution or romance?
FEW, if any, people/philosophers get as bashed up on their 200th birthday anniversary as Karl Heinrich Marx did on May 5, 2018. Whether it is the neo-liberal atmosphere or a guttural reaction to his opposition to private property rights, this German philosopher's 21st Century portrait as a punching bag is woefully deficient.
May 5, 2018
Wuhan woos: China and India rewriting future history?
Behind the brouhaha of the recent Macron-Trump and Moon-Kim summits, the Modi-Jinping rendezvous may have made less noise, but could make more substantive global changes. A multi-layered appraisal at the local, regional, and global levels examines the proposition.
April 29, 2018
A Korean Super Moon?
If 2018 was meant to be the year of the “moon”, we have not been disappointed. There was the March 31 Blue Moon, that is, when the full moon appears for the second time in a month.
April 21, 2018
Britain's un-Commonwealth
The British Commonw-ealth Heads of Government Meeting (BCHOGM) unfolding in London this week faces some underlying questions: What is it that binds 53 disparate members? How does it blend into 21st Century international relations? Why is it important?
February 23, 2017
Digital Bangladesh as a gatekeeper?
Just as Vision 2021, regional connectivity, and seaport startups increasingly enter public parlance today as independent dynamics, how they converge domestically also reflect global tendencies. At stake are domestic infrastructure building, external financial resources, and the rivalry baggage in connecting both.
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