Analysis
Truce Holds A Year After Brief Indo-Pak War, Conflict Continues
A year has passed since conflict broke out between India and Pakistan, briefly raising fears of an all-out war between the two nuclear powers. While violent…
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Development Trapped in Delay
OVER the past two decades, infrastructure construction in Bangladesh has been used as a key instrument of economic transformation. Expressways, bridges, railroads, subway networks, thermal power…
Analysis
From Scotland to Wales: A Shift Beyond Two-Party Politics
The elections held across England, Scotland and Wales on 7 May 2026 marked a significant juncture in the United Kingdom’s political landscape. The votes took place…
Analysis
BJP’s Bengal Breakthrough and the Uneven Future of Indian Democracy
On May 04, 2026 held elections in five Indian states and the results shocked everyone. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has now become the single dominant party…
Media coverage item
Germany keen to deepen collaboration with Bangladesh in strategic sectors
German Ambassador to Bangladesh Dr Rüdiger Lotz on Wednesday expressed Germany’s strong interest in expanding collaboration with Bangladesh in strategic sectors, including technology, skilled manpower, renewable…
Analysis
Beijing Summit Signals a G-2 World
The May 14-15 meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing should not be remembered only as another high-level diplomatic encounter. It was not a…
Meet the Ambassador
Report on the Event of Meet the Ambassador: Germany
On Wednesday, 20 May 2026, the Centre for Governance Studies (CGS), in collaboration with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Bangladesh, hosted a session of the “Meet the Ambassador” series…
Newsletter
Indo-Pacific Insights | May 19, 2026
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Interference With the Judiciary is A Part of Governance in Sri Lanka
It’s hard to find a single government after 1977 which had not interfered with judicial affairs Past governments’ failures or violations do not justify those of…
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PM Balen has Eroded Democratic Norms. Up Next Could be The Rules
Although coups like the one imposed by King Mahendra in 1960—or the one done by his son Gyanendra in 2002—do exist as historical examples of a…
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Can Peace Talks End Insurgency?
Filipinos have endured the communist insurgency for more than five decades. The Communist Party of the Philippines–New People’s Army–National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF), once a formidable force,…
Analysis
Violence, Trauma and Rising Crime Rates: How Israel’s Wars of Aggression are Hitting Home
Netanyahu exports the logic of occupation and dispossession across the region - at the expense of his own society Something dangerous is happening within Israeli society,…