Tectonic shifts in foreign policy: Keeping eyes open to remain ahead of the game

Bangladesh's foreign policy has turned almost full circle since those testy 1971 days. Battling Pakistani troops back with Indian help then structured what kind of a foreign policy trajectory the country got off with. India was instrumental in getting Bangladesh recognised by other South Asian countries, plunging, as it did,...

For climate safety, call in the engineers

This month's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland succeeded in producing a rulebook to implement the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Every UN member state signed on. But that will not be enough to head off climate catastrophe. It's time to call in the engineers.The diplomatic success at...