Mehjabin Maliha Hossain

As US pressures Dhaka, Rohingya Crisis Looms on the Horizon

With the election approaching, Dhaka is busy greeting foreign delegates and observers. The foreign observers are all invariably pressing for a free and fair...

Mulling on National Security Strategy of Bangladesh: Priorities and Posture

If Bangladesh reciprocates the hostile signals of Myanmar, will it consolidate Bangladesh’s security or will it bring Bangladesh on the same footing as Myanmar?

U.S.-Bangladesh Ties and Track-I Diplomacy: Enroute to “Truly Strategic Partnership”

The last few years have witnessed a resurgence of engagement in U.S.-Bangladesh relations. The United States perceives Bangladesh as an "important country" due to...

The Uneasy Colossus: How Washington’s Domestic Realism and International Idealism Are at Loggerheads

While the United States spouts moral prescriptions and idealistic injunctions across the world, the recent trail of human rights violations revealed the unsightly underbelly...

Weapons of Human Rights: An Instrument of U.S. Fustian Foreign Policy?

Human rights are deemed as the sacrosanct ideal in international affairs, and any transgressions of human rights need to be redressed in line with...

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U.S. Leftover Weapons and the Taliban’s Legacy

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