Analysis
War, Inflation and Wokeism Return Trump to White House
Donald Trump capitalized on Kamala Harris’s various weaknesses in one of the greatest comebacks in US political history Donald Trump’s projected victory in Pennsylvania with 95%…
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Bangladesh’s Foreign Policy Should Be Based on “National Interests”
"Friendship to all, malice towards none" is a well-known statement often cited in discussions on Bangladesh's foreign policy. However, in today's global landscape, maintaining equal friendship…
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Cop16: The World’s Largest Meeting to Save Nature has Ended With No Clear Path Ahead
Progress at the UN’s biodiversity summit, Cop16, in Cali, Colombia, has been slow. Frustratingly so. There were high hopes that the Colombian hosts could coordinate action…
Analysis
It’s Not Just Trump. Europe Fears China, Too
On Oct. 30, the stirrings of a corporate Halloween were visible in the heart of the euro-area economy — with nary a Trump tariff in sight.…
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Who are We, America?
On the Ellipse, in the very spot from which Donald Trump dispatched a violent mob to the Capitol in 2021, tens of thousands of people, of…
Analysis
CGS CFJ Whitepaper: Drop Cases Still Pending Under Flawed Cybersecurity Law Repealed in 2018
Cases pending under repealed provisions of Bangladesh’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act should be dropped, the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s TrialWatch Initiative and Centre for…
Analysis
Mohammad Yunus Can Go Down in History As The Architect of A New Bangladesh
After mass protests forced long-term Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee the country in early August, Bangladesh found itself in a unique moment of…
Analysis
Suspended Biodiversity COP 16: A Summit Without Budget for Agenda Implementation Towards the Goal of “Making Peace with Nature”
The 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference, hosted in Cali, Colombia, achieved milestones in furthering the cause of global biodiversity under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Although the…
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Sri Lanka’s Long Road to Recovery
The economic and political upheavals Sri Lanka has faced in recent years, including its 2022 debt default and the mass protests that ousted former President Gotabaya…
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Autocratic Nations are Reaching Across Borders to Silence Critics – and So Far Nothing Seems to Stop Them
Iranian journalist Pouria Zeraati survived an assassination attempt outside his home in Wimbledon, south London, in late March. Eighteen months earlier, the London-based independent television channel…
Analysis
Constitutional Transfer of Power Continues to Elude Bangladesh
Bangladeshi public intellectual Afsan Chowdhury says that this is because countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh failed to imbibe the Constitutional values British rule had given…
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Why China and India are De-Eescalating Tensions on Their Disputed Border
China and India have started pulling back troops on their disputed Himalayan border after reaching an agreement on military patrols along the frontier. “Frontline troops from…