Opinion
The emerging complexity with regard to Brexit and the conflict in opinions within Britain have all created concern not only within the United Kingdom but also within the European Union. This paradigm of anxiety has persuaded EU analysts to re-visit the evolving international factors that c...
Bangladesh drew the attention of the democratic world when we approved in our Jatiyo Sangshad our Right to Information Act in 2009. It enabled us to demonstrate our commitment towards not only transparency but also accountability in the paradigm of good governance. The Act itself had several innovat...
Countries with economic power normally also possess military power. This combination helps them to deploy, when necessary, substantial force that enables them to exercise and influence events within the international arena- be it within the sub-region or region or on countries located in anothe...
The evolving situation on the Turkish- Syrian- Iraqi Kurdish border continues to create anxiety not only in that region but also elsewhere- including the European Union and the United States domestic political arena.When it started, we saw President Trump’s controversial comments abo...
Xenophobia is the fear or hatred of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange. Analysts also feel that it can involve perceptions of an in-group toward an external group, not recognized as part of the community. It can then manifest itself in suspicion of the activities of others, a...
Over the past few months we, in Bangladesh and also in many other countries in South and South East Asia, have witnessed unfortunate incidents that have resulted out of radicalization of the youth population and also found expression through the misuse of ethical standards r...
After months of indirect and oblique threats, British Prime Minister David Cameron wrote a letter to Donald Tusk President of the European Council on 10 November, 2015. He demanded a renegotiation of the terms of Britain’s membership of the European Union.Four years on and three...
Anxiety has grown over the last year because of terrorist attacks carried out at regular intervals by terrorists belonging to the Taliban group as well as those associated with the IS inside Afghanistan. This concern has been further heightened with President Trump abruptly calling off peace ta...
Bangladesh has had to be a gracious host to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims over the last four decades. They have sought sanctuary in our country from ethnic cleansing, rape, arson and murder carried out against them by non-Rohingyas and communal Buddhist monks. They came into B...
On 31 August, as had been declared earlier, India published the final version of a list which effectively strips 1,906,657 people of the north-eastern State of Assam of their citizenship. This number includes about 1.1 million persons of Hindu faith and about 5 lac of Muslim faith.The controversial ...
Troubled by street demonstrations in Paris on a regular basis for the last few months, President Emmanuel Macron made a wise decision to convene the recently concluded annual G7 Summit in Biarritz on the southwest coast of France overlooking the Bay of Biscay- known for its surfing and therapeutic w...
Several scholars have been carrying out an interesting debate. It relates to the origin of languages. The discussion started with the principle of migration and how it had influenced cultural and linguistic aspects within the evolving matrix of language and literature.Several interest...
Human trafficking and illegal migration has reached unacceptable proportions. The osmotic effect of this equation is proving to be a menace for those trying to gain from this exercise. This has led to about 800,000 illegal migrants and 50,000 registered refugees and asylum-seekers being trapped in L...
The crisis in relations between the United States and Iran has continued to evolve in a manner that is creating an osmotic concern and anxiety not only within the Middle East- Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen and Egypt- but also in Member countries of the Eu...
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Fifteenth of August marks the 44th anniversary of the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Father of the Nation and many members of his immediate family. The day of mourning gives us an opportunity to acknowledge the historic role that he played as the master helmsman in th...
Boris Johnson has assumed the post of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom- the 14th Prime Minister appointed during the reign of the present Queen Elizabeth (the first having been Winston Churchill) and the 55th since the office of Prime Minister was initiated by the British monarchy....
A two-day international conference of the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA) recently concluded in Dhaka. United Nations former Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his speech, delivered during the inaugural ceremony, noted that Bangladesh, in the front line of countries facing problems arising out o...
There is need to re-visit the G-20 Summit that was recently convened in Osaka, Japan in June. It was the latest annual meeting of leaders from the countries with the largest and fastest-growing economies and reflected concern over the evolving geo-strategic paradigm.It witnessed several dimensi...
The dynamics of ties between Bangladesh and China has intensified in its diversity through greater connectivity within the sub-regional and regional paradigms. Bangladesh’s “Look East Policy” and greater linkages through the One Belt One Road initiative (BRI)- that Bangladesh ...
There is general consensus after the 2019 EU elections held at the end of May that certain power blocs have lost their grip on the EU Parliament. Analysts have pointed out that both the big centre-right and centre-left blocs in the European Parliament have lost their combined majority amid an increa...
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