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The Case for Washington’s Strategic Engagement in South Asia
Changing geo-strategic circumstances with the rise of China have forced the United States to narrow its global commitments and concentrate on the immediate challenge. In South Asia, this shift in priorities has felt seismic. While U.S. engagement centered on counterterrorism…
Bangladesh-Japan Economic Partnership: New Horizons for Development
Bangladesh and Japan are set to finalize the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) to bolster bilateral trade and investment between the two nations. The relationship between the two nations has grown rapidly over the years and Japan is now one of…
Ten Years of CPEC: A Decade of Disappointments
Formally launched in 2013, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) marked the flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. China has promised investments through CPEC totaling $62 billion. While both China and Pakistan call CPEC a win-win initiative, providing much-needed…
Bangladesh is Forging Ahead with a Green Foreign Policy
Bangladesh is considered one of the most vulnerable countries to climate-induced risks and ranks seventh among the extreme disaster risk-prone countries. The Climate Risk Index 2021 states that climate change has caused grave humanitarian losses with casualties counted at 11,450…
The Strengthening of India-Egypt Relations
On his maiden visit to Egypt last month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, marking the latest move in rapidly warming ties between the two countries. The visit, the first by an Indian Prime Minister…
Former FATA’s Mainstreaming Remains Elusive
Pakistan merged the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the Afghanistan border into the adjoining Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province in May 2018, ending the century-old colonial administrative structure of the region by bringing it into the constitutional order and…