Articles By Kazi Anwarul Masud
Definitions of Global South
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Date: 26 Oct , 2023
The Global South as a critical concept has three primary definitions. First, it has traditionally been used within intergovernmental development organizations –– primarily those that...
Importance of South Asia in Global Politics with India Leading the Pack
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Date: 04 Oct , 2023
Countries of South Asia South Asia is the southern sub-region of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms. As commonly conceptualized South Asia consists of...
Can a nuclear war start with the unease felt by China?
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Date: 02 Jun , 2023
Rohan Mukherji of the London School of Economics and Political Science believes that he writes in an article in Foreign Affairs magazine (China’s status anxiety May 19 2023) of the possibility...
The Emergence of a Multi-Polar World
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Date: 27 Apr , 2023
According to Encyclopedia Britannica updated by J.E.Lubering in April 2023 35m Bangladeshis still live below the poverty line. Regular monitoring of progress is emphasized in recent Poverty Watch...
Sino-Russian Entente Versus Western Democracy
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Apr , 2023
Treaty of Westphalia After sabre rattling for thirty years the major European powers desiring rest produced the Treaty of Westphalia (1648).“It also ended the Eighty Years’ War (1568 –...
Westphalia in the Modern Context
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2023
Significance of the Treaty of Westphalia For many years Germany became the principal theatre of European diplomacy and war, and consequently,the development of German national unity was delayed....
Pakistan has a new Chief of Army Staff
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2022
Replacement of Imran Khan as Prime Minister General Syed Asif Munir was reportedly the consensus candidate for the post of Chief of Army Staff. His appointment was however preceded by chaos caused...
Bangladesh Foreign Policy in the Context of South Asia
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2022
Ever since the people of the world learnt the need for homogeneity –be it cultural, linguistic, religion, tribal of for the necessity to band together and felt the need to acknowledge the...
Conflict in Ukraine
By: Kazi Anwarul Masud | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Aug , 2022
In an article in Foreign Affairs magazine (The Putin Doctrine: A Move on Ukraine Has Always Been Part of the Plan, By Angela Stent January 27, 2022).She wrote, and I quote- “The current crisis...
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...