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BIMSTEC and the Challenge of Asymmetric Adoption
Long dismissed as “summit-driven” and superficial, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is now beginning to deliver. On May 16, 2026, the BIMSTEC Secretariat confirmed that the Agreement on Maritime Transport Cooperation (AMTC), the…
After the Four-Day War: Defense Adaptation and Strategic Realignment Across South Asia
The May 2025 conflict between India and Pakistan lasted less than a week, but its aftershocks are still coursing through the region. The crisis saw the region's first live combat test of Chinese-manufactured J-10C fighters, PL-15 beyond-visual-range (BVR) missiles, and…
The Shadow of Bangladesh: Elections and Paradiplomacy in Assam
A now-deleted video posted from the official handle of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Assam unit depicted Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma holding a gun and firing bullets on two people who appeared to be Muslims. The post was…
Bangladesh First? The Choices Defining Tarique Rahman’s Foreign Policy
On February 12, 2026, Bangladesh held its first election after the fall of Sheikh Hasina in August 2024. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Tarique Rahman, secured a decisive two-thirds majority, with 212 of 299 parliamentary seats, ending eighteen…
SAV Q&A with Muhib Rahman: Unpacking the Bangladesh Elections
On February 12, Bangladesh held elections for the first time since the ouster of longtime leader Sheikh Hasina in August 2024. Voters delivered a supermajority in parliament to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and approved a referendum on the proposed…
The Other Half of Democracy: Governing and Opposing in Bangladesh’s Democratic Transition
Bangladesh has lived through fifteen years of elections in which genuine political competition was progressively dismantled. Under Sheikh Hasina’s rule from 2009 to 2024, the country came to resemble what comparative political scientists describe as a competitive authoritarian regime: formal…