Analysis
THE YEAR AHEAD India and Pakistan Are Edging Closer to War in 2020
Two crises dominated South Asia in 2019, and each one stands to get worse next year. Michael Kugelman Turmoil is never far away in South Asia,…
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The ‘risk to democracy’ in Chile isn’t from protesters. It’s from Piñera and the 1%
Protest criminalised, direct action equated with terrorism: it’s starting to feel like the bad old days of Pinochet “We’re at war against a powerful enemy,” declared…
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Netanyahu Wants to Annex the West Bank. Will Joe Biden Stop Him?
Early in my career as a U.S. diplomat in the 1980s, I was assigned the thankless task of carrying water for Israel. The mission: to lobby…
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Reclaiming a Moral Economy
Bangladesh currently ranks among the fastest growing major economies in the world, notwithstanding some doubts about the growth estimates. In fact, the country’s average annual growth…
Analysis
CGS Journal’s Editorial Board Announcement
Centre for Governance Studies is delighted to announce the formation of its flagship journal’s Editorial Board. Journal of Governance, Security & Development is a peer-reviewed journal…
Analysis
India has wounded Afghan and Bangladeshi self-respect
Make no mistake, the Bangladeshi and Afghan missions in Chanakyapuri would report verbatim to their capitals the abrasive remarks attributed to the Indian leadership, casting a…
Analysis
India-Bangladesh Relations: Post-2014
Bangladesh-India relationship has always been an issue of intense discussions and debate among academics, policy makers and activists. Both governments claim that these two countries are…
Analysis
Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India
The Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies. Dexter Filkins On August 11th, two weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
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Future of finance hinges on understanding of data
It is being discussed in the corridors that the accounting or finance profession is going to be most impacted in the era of artificial intelligence and…
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Why influx from India to Bangladesh.
The influx of people from India crossing the borders to Bangladesh in the past weeks warrants the attention of Bangladeshi policymakers. Unfortunately, the foreign minister’s recent…
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From one frying pan to another?
What Bangladesh Bank should do is to get rid of all interest rate caps and focus on implementing the macro-prudential regulatory framework symmetrically for all banks…
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How new autocrats curb press freedom
As democratic backsliding has become a global phenomenon and hybrid regimes—a political system which has both democratic and authoritarian traits—have proliferated, freedom of the press has…