Articles By Kazi Anwarul Masud

China is not (Richard Haas’s borrowed terminology) ten feet tall
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Apr , 2022
Decades back when the US reigned supreme in the aftermath of the Second World War, dictating the political, moral and economic character that the world, many parts were yet under colonial rule,...

Frantz Fanon and South Asia
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Date: 12 Mar , 2022
Frantz Fanon a Marxist who had joined the Algerian independence war wrote about the prejudice of, what he called, the “colonial alienation of the person” as a mental health issue. In ‘The...

Can China Ever Be an Alternative?
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Date: 20 Mar , 2021
Decades back when the US reigned supreme in the aftermath of the Second World War, given both the political, moral and economic character that the world, many parts were yet under colonial rule,...

India and South Asia
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Date: 29 Aug , 2017
Why, one may ask, despite common cultural heritage and long bonds of history and added to these factors was Indian humanitarian intervention during the Bangladesh Liberation War Indo-Bangladesh...

North Korean Conundrum
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Date: 23 Aug , 2017
One wonders where Robert Kagan, Niall Ferguson, Paul Wolfowitz and other neo-cons have disappeared when President Donald Trump is sounding “fire and fury” and “locked and loaded” at North...

Change in Pakistan—Once Again
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Date: 09 Aug , 2017
For the third time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been thrown out. In Pakistan where the army has wielded- directly or indirectly- more or less absolute power since the partition of India in 1947...

Can Equality be ever established? The Case of Bangladesh
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 02 Aug , 2017
Chilean bankers Ari Aisen and Francisco José Veiga in a study tried to empirically determine the effects of political instability on economic growth using sample covering 169 countries over...

Is the Clash of Civilization Real?
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Date: 13 May , 2017
While there can be no defense for the terrorism and despicable brutalities perpetrated by the al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, ISIS and their likes the international community should remain conscious of the...