Bangladesh News & Analysis

Trans-border waterways have always been sources of geopolitical tension, and climate change is only making cooperation more difficult. This article examines three international water conflicts to keep an eye on in the coming years.

On the seven-year anniversary of the Rohingya crisis, the international community must be serious and proactive in working toward the repatriation of Rohingyas to Myanmar.

A wave of political unrest in Bangladesh has brought down the longstanding government of Sheikh Hasina, and the path forward remains unclear.

While student protests in Bangladesh have managed to partially achieve their initial goal of eroding the post-independence job quota system, the movement’s wider political objectives of regime change will likely remain out-of-reach.

Recent arrests near the Bangladesh border suggest that Al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent is down but not out.

It is high time to mount global pressure on Myanmar to stop atrocities against its people and start Rohingya repatriation from Bangladesh

Pressure from world governments, and notably the UK, will be needed if the Rohingyas currently trapped in Bangladesh are to find justice.

Was Dhaka’s response to recent US sanctions mature or imprudent?

Despite courting from Beijing and Washington, Bangladesh is unlikely to deviate from its longstanding commitment to non-alignment.

Recent events seem to suggest that Bangladesh is moving closer to China and Pakistan, potentially furthering the geopolitical encirclement of India.

An overview of the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar corridor, which through to 2020 remains the most hypothetical of all of Belt and Road's regional spokes.

We must not forget that development is a means to an end, a way for society to stand on its own two feet. It is not an end in and of itself.

Dhaka has essentially been abandoned by the international community and has scant resources to provide for Rohingya refugees.

What started as a protest over road safety could transform into something else entirely in Bangladesh.

Old rivalries threaten to pull Bangladeshi democracy further into the abyss in 2018.