Tag: Diplomacy

Peace or Strategic Reset?

The ceasefire has created an opportunity. Whether the parties seize it will depend not only on the negotiators in the room but also on political leaders willing to accept outcomes short of their maximalist positions. Transforming that opportunity into lasting peace remains the region's greatest challenge.

Diplomacy Demands Credibility. Pakistan Has None to Spare.

Pakistan may be relevant. But relevance is not neutrality, and it is not trustworthiness. Any diplomatic process in which Pakistan seeks a decisive role should be treated with strict limits, hard verification, and deep skepticism.

Bangladesh Cannot Afford to Underinvest in Cultural Diplomacy Any Longer

What Bangladesh lacks is not culture, talent, or stories -- but the vision and infrastructure to translate them into sustained soft power

Childhood’s End

Soon we will no longer be able to rely on Prof Yunus's global reputation to smooth things over with allies and adversaries alike. It is time for Bangladesh to invest in its diplomatic capacity. The future belongs to those who can skillfully maneuver on the world stage.

How Trump’s Oval Office Became a Global Interrogation Room

The White House is now a stage for public rebuke, political theatre, and intimidation disguised as diplomacy. Within this heavily guarded mansion now lies an inner chamber not of hospitality but of strategic humiliation, where world leaders no longer meet an equal but face a prosecutorial figurehead.