Abstract: In late December 2019, Chinese health specialists detailed a flare-up of pneumonia of obscure source in Wuhan, Hubei Province. A pair of days after the very fact, the genome of a novel COVID was delivered (COVID Genome Data) and made openly accessible to established researchers. This novel Coronavirus was temporarily named 2019-nCoV, presently SARS-CoV-2…Read More
Category: International Relations
Rethinking the Security Apparatus: An Experience of COVID-19
Abstract: Security discourse is one of the major ingredients of any international event. The Corona or COVID-19 case is also not disentangled from security perspectives. Moreover, it has brought unprecedented security paradox to the global security regime. In this article, we tried to demonstrate the security implications of the COVID-19 case with a critical point…Read More
Indo-Pacific-Opportunities for the Regional Institutions in South Asia
Abstract The Indo-Pacific Strategy is an omnipresent aspect of US foreign policy in the 21st century. It is a policy design, having rooted in the past, and inextricably intertwined with the future of the country and its allies. The US involvement in the Indo-Pacific, in the name of enhancing trade, and making and strengthening new…Read More
Potential Role of China in South Asia as a Country Leading the BRI
Abstract China has been eyeing South Asia for its economic endeavors for a long time. With the motivation to check India’s power status in the region, coupled with intentions to assert socio-economic and political influence in the region, the Belt and Road Initiative, designed from Chinese heritage and ancient past, has created a shining path…Read More
Who are the Rohingyas?
Abstract: this article trace down the origin of Rohingyas and also the history of Arakan state, how the Rohingyas evolve in Arakan, the advent of Islam in Arakan when the influx of Rohingyas started at Bengal. The first settlers of the Chittagong region were the Rohingyas or the people of Arakan. And the history of…Read More
Anarchy: A Perennial Feature of World Politics or an Outdated Dogma of Realist International Relations Scholarship?
This short article will briefly seek to expose some flaws in the neorealist explanation of international system in terms of a perpetual state of anarchy which succeeds doing so by adopting a positivist epistemology, focusing on structure rather than process and drawing a strict dichotomy between domestic and international politics, suggesting the latter remains anarchical…Read More
The Dangers of “the Emergency of Emergence” in Africa
This is a continental phenomenon. Following the roaring 2000s that saw the fast growth of middle-income countries in the global South – epitomized by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) – many African countries defined in the early 2010sas a priority the attainment of this status of emergence. This is the case of…Read More
How Important are Natural Resources for African Development?
Today, Noé Michalon breaks the myth of natural resources being a key factor of either the development or the decay of African countries. They surely played a role in emphasizing pre-existing factors but should be put in the background to focus on more important core activities. When it comes to natural resources in Africa comes…Read More
BREXIT: Will the Liberal International Order of Europe Collapse?
Since the demise of the Cold War, liberal world order was expected to reign in the world order system. Liberal states had gained superiority over communism and most prevailing theory of back then, realism has got itself engaged in too much violence and security threat. As a result, it was expected that Liberalist principles will…Read More
Power Struggle in Arabian Sea: a contemporary analysis
The Arabian Sea, especially Strait of Hormuz, has always been of great importance because of neighboring resource-rich countries. A significant amount of world oil trade passes through this. This part of the Arabian Sea is of prime significance for almost all the regional and global players including India, Pakistan, China, and the US. read…Read More