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<title>Counterpoint &#45; Atif Ahmed Choudhury</title>
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<title>Nation&#45;Building in Bangladesh and the Global South</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Marginalizing Sylhet and other peripheral districts is more than a regional grievance. It is a strategic mistake that weakens Bangladesh’s national economy, even as policymakers tout the country’s global competitiveness. Yet it also reveals the contradictions and idiosyncrasies in modern nation-building exercises. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:59:23 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Atif Ahmed Choudhury</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Dhaka, Sylhet</media:keywords>
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<title>Somaliland’s Israel Gambit Is a Strategic Own Goal. Bangladesh Learned This Lesson in 1971</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Bangladesh rejected Israel’s recognition not because it could afford to be principled -- but because it could not afford not to be strategic. Somaliland should take note. The lesson is clear: recognition divorced from coalition-building and regional consensus can be worse than no recognition at all. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:19:12 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Atif Ahmed Choudhury</dc:creator>
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<title>Bangladesh Cannot Afford to Underinvest in Cultural Diplomacy Any Longer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ What Bangladesh lacks is not culture, talent, or stories -- but the vision and infrastructure to translate them into sustained soft power ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:14:50 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Atif Ahmed Choudhury</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Soft Power</media:keywords>
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<title>Neighborhood First? Hardly.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A functional India-Bangladesh relationship -- built on mutual respect and interests -- is an economic and geo-strategic imperative. Otherwise, India’s fears of “strategic encirclement” risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:13:17 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Atif Ahmed Choudhury</dc:creator>
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