Kawsar Uddin Mahmud

The writer is a political analyst based in Dhaka and a researcher at the KRF Center for Bangladesh and Global Affairs (CBGA), Dhaka.

Will the Myanmar Junta Hold National Elections in the Near Future?

Already two years have passed since the Myanmar military junta ousted the democratically elected National League for Democracy (NLD) regime of Aung San Suu...

ASEAN’s South China Sea Code: Another Room for Great Power Rivalry?

The South China Sea is a significant resource-rich waterway that is crisscrossed by coinciding claims from China and several ASEAN members. The geopolitical and...

Why Has Uganda Scrapped a Deal With China?

For the last few decades, China has jerked the whole world with its nimble economic growth, surpassing Japan and other European countries in GDP...

Is There Any Possibility for Peace Talks on the Ukraine Crisis?

Through the acute effect of dwindling resilience in the politico-economic milieu throughout the world, the Ukraine crisis has penetrated the whole world into a...

Oil Politics and Europe: The West in Conundrum?

The Russia-Ukraine war has drastically altered the dynamics of world politics ranging from the economic supply chain to the geopolitical rivalry among the great...

ASEAN Summit 2022: How Did the Great Power Rivalry Play Out?

As the chair of the regional organization, Cambodia organized this year the 40th and 41st ASEAN (Association for South-East Asian Nations) summits from November...

ASEAN Summit 2022 and Myanmar: Signaling a New Level of Relations?

Not many days have passed since the 40th and 41st ASEAN summits were held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Nov. 10-13, 2022. Led by...

Why Was Putin Absent at the G20 Summit?

This year, the seventeenth meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20) was held on Nov. 15-16, 2022 in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. On the...

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