Makkah Pact: The geopolitics beyond Islamic solidarity
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Geopolitical Insights
Myanmar’s deteriorating crisis and the political future of the Rohingya
16 September 2026
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Geopolitical Insights
Bangladesh between India and China: The dilemma of defence diversification
15 September 2026
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Geopolitical Insights
What Bangladesh should ask before joining the Makkah Pact
13 September 2026
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Geopolitical Insights
Nepal’s difficult passage: Political change meets ecological crisis
13 September 2026
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Geopolitical Insights
BRICS at 20: Why the New Delhi Summit matters to the Global South
12 September 2026
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Geopolitical Insights
From Balfour to sanctions: Why the UK’s ban on Israeli settlement trade matters
11 September 2026
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Geopolitical Insights
Ganges Water Treaty: A new bargain or a new dispute?
10 September 2026
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Geopolitical Insights
Bangladesh and the Mecca Pact: The national security questions we are missing
9 September 2026
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Geopolitical Insights
From Chinese fighter jets to the Mecca Pact: Bangladesh’s strategic future?
8 September 2026
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Geopolitical Insights
The real crisis behind India-Bangladesh border push-ins
Beyond migration, the India-Bangladesh border crisis fails due process, bringing severe push-in phenomena and diplomatic consequences.
17 June 2026
Trump’s Iran deal might end the war, but solve nothing
Trump’s ceasefire agreement pauses American and Iranian hostilities but ultimately fails to resolve the nuclear enrichment dispute.
16 June 2026
What's really in the US-Iran deal?
A proposed US-Iran agreement promises de-escalation and Gulf stability, but leaves core disputes unresolved for future negotiations.
15 June 2026
Israel-First: U.S. Congress is quietly merging America's military with Israel's
A controversial defense bill provision sparks debate over U.S.-Israel military integration, congressional accountability, and national security.
15 June 2026
Bangladesh’s strategic dilemma in the Bay of Bengal
Sir Walter Raleigh wrote in the sixteenth century: “Whoever commands the sea commands the trade; whoever commands the trade commands the riches; and whoever commands the riches commands the world itself.”
14 June 2026
Why AI cannot be left unsupervised
In November 2021, all 193 UNESCO member states unanimously adopted the landmark recommendation on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
14 June 2026
Do Mamata and the Trinamool Congress have a political future?
Mamata’s rump would be Trinamool Lite — still around, still vocal, but no longer the machinery through which Bengal’s political economy ran.
11 June 2026
The making of India’s Bengali Muslim problem
I wrote this book before the July uprising, so the issues I discuss are not new developments but part of a much longer process.
8 June 2026
After garments: The search for Bangladesh's next export success
Bangladesh faces fading export advantages, prompting urgent debate on industrial policy, diversification, and institutional reform.
4 June 2026
What can stop India's push-ins?
As India intensifies deportation efforts, Bangladesh faces growing pressure at a border increasingly shaped by politics.
3 June 2026
Can Bangladesh defend itself in the great-power cyber war?
Amidst escalating great-power cyberwar, Bangladesh must adopt a pragmatic, resilience-focused cybersecurity strategy to protect its critical infrastructure.
2 June 2026
Could India's Gen-Z rebellion begin with cockroaches?
India’s Cockroach Janata Party embodies a satirical youth rebellion, channelling Gen Z disillusionment regarding severe national unemployment.
25 May 2026
The cotton clause: How the US–Bangladesh trade pact could reshape regional textile trade
Bangladesh’s trade deal with Washington could unlock tariffs, finance and cotton access, reshaping regional textile competition.
25 May 2026
The OpenAI–Musk dispute: Who controls the future of AI?
The ongoing dispute between OpenAI and Elon Musk has been framed, at least superficially, as a legal and personal confrontation—a founder challenging the trajectory of an institution he helped to create.
25 May 2026
Why both Trump and Putin felt compelled to visit Beijing
As Trump and Putin arrive in Beijing, China signals a changing world order with itself at the center.
24 May 2026
What Bangladesh should understand about the Arakan Army’s Way of Rakhita doctrine
Analysing the Arakan Army’s Way of Rakhita reveals how Arakanese nationalism shapes Myanmar politics and the Rohingya crisis.
20 May 2026
The hunt for the Holy Grail: The repurposed US-Israeli casus belli for Iran’s uranium
A literary geopolitical essay tracing how war in Iran becomes a recursive quest for symbolic control and meaning.
18 May 2026
What is the ‘Thucydides trap’ Xi warned Trump about?
During their high-stakes meeting in Beijing this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly asked US President Donald Trump if the two countries could overcome the “Thucydides trap”.
17 May 2026
Does the US-Bangladesh trade deal mirror colonial economics?
One might hear this and think it is history. But move forward 150 years to twenty-first-century Bangladesh, and the same story appears to be repeating itself.
17 May 2026
What will stop killings at the Bangladesh–India border?
Persistent killings along the Bangladesh-India border expose deepening impunity, nationalist politics, and failures of accountability mechanisms today.
16 May 2026