From tensions with China and the Myanmar war to Bangladesh’s changing rhetoric, the Northeast’s growing strategic importance is finding a place in Bollywood

Bangladesh suffers unavoidable economic consequences from global geopolitical rivalries, highlighting the profound vulnerability of developing nations today.

The 2026 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group took place from April 13 to April 18 amid ongoing geopolitical tensions, persistent inflation, and slowing growth.

Commanding Arctic waters and located nearer America than Europe, Greenland carries immense strategic value.

The Trump administration, unlike the Biden administration, does not view foreign policy through a values-based lens.

Trump has claimed that Venezuela stole “our” oil, and that his mission is to win it back.

In the new geopolitical order, Bangladesh must seize the emerging economic opportunities.

I once asked Noam Chomsky how he manages to remember so many facts and figures.

After 22 months of invasion, let’s evaluate whether it was worth it or not for Russia to invade Ukraine.

Economist Wahiduddin Mahmud says at the BIDS conference

Ukraine is a moral tragedy, whereby no one wants to take tough decisions for peace, preferring to wage war in which hundreds of thousands have died, millions have migrated and the unspoken outcome is nuclear. 

Getting entangled in the Russia-US rivalry is contrary to Bangladesh’s national interests.

Deep social change often come from people, social movements and civil society organisations, rarely from top down.

Myanmar's geopolitical value is putting Bangladesh in a tight spot

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) 22nd annual summit of heads of states took place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

While these regimes have no real future, there is no clear and institutionally viable alternative to replace them.

The next stage of Bangladesh-India relations should involve long-term, innovative projects.

The recent virtual BRICS summit, which brought together the heads of state and government of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, was interesting as much for what did not happen as for what did.