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China in South Asia: A Strategy of ‘Strings of Pearls’?

International Relations and Diplomacy, 2020

China’s growing engagement in various sectors in South Asia poses challenges to India’s regional ... more China’s growing engagement in various sectors in South Asia poses challenges to India’s regional dominant position. China has started billions of dollars investment for infrastructure development, especially in those states who are part of its Belt and Road initiatives (BRI). Indian scholars consider Beijing’s Indian Ocean centric investment including sea port expansion as a policy of controlling India by creating ‘string of pearls,’ those small countries as a vital ‘pearl’ in this ‘string’. On the contrary, China claims that it is not anything concerning security in South Asia; rather, she looks for economic gain as well as a win-win situation for all. Except for India, all countries of this region have already welcomed their participation in the BRI. In order to illustrate the opposite perceptions of India and China, the paper aims to explore either China’s investment in the South Asian region is for its strategic gain or more economic expansions. I argue that China’s growing influence in South Asia should not be considered as a strategy of ‘encirclement’ against India. Nevertheless, the article concludes here if New Delhi and Beijing is looking forward to making a success of BRI, it certainly will bring crucial geopolitical and economic gain.

Success story of controlling COVID-19 in East Asia: lessons for South Asia

Independent Journal of Management & Production, 2021

The novel coronavirus is an issue of life and death. The main purpose of the study is to know the... more The novel coronavirus is an issue of life and death. The main purpose of the study is to know the East Asian success story of controlling Covid-19 and identify which strategies could be a lesson for South Asia and to examine the influence of good governance on controlling COVID-19. Total daily cases of COVID-19 are collected from March 10 to June 15 for East Asian and March 4 to June 15 for South Asian countries. ARIMA forecasting, ADF test, stability test, and diagnostic tests are applied. The minimum value of AIC and BIC shows the appropriate model is ARIMA (0, 1, 1) for both regions. In the East and South Asian model, the coefficients of the constant term are -0.759451 and 198.0155, and coefficients of MA (1) are -0.715686 and -0.339701 respectively for both regions. It's significant at a 1% significance level and support our hypotheses that the total daily cases of COVID-19 decreasing into East Asia but increasing into South Asia and prove that the South Asia region has face...

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Bangladesh-India relations: Honeymoon period returned?

Journal of Advances in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020

This article aims to provide a better understanding how deeply Bangladesh and India are maintaini... more This article aims to provide a better understanding how deeply Bangladesh and India are maintaining good relations between them in recent time. Furthermore, this study has investigated and identified the factors that motivated both India and Bangladesh to revive their sound relations. In the South Asian region, India is the dominant power in terms of population, economy, military strengths, geographical size, location, etc. Bangladesh shares 78.86% of its total border with India. Both countries’ history, languages, culture, and economic nature is a more or less similar manner. During the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971, it got a lot of support from India. After getting independence, both countries experience a sound relationship until 1975, which we can call the ‘Honey-moon’ period. After that, Bangladesh faces some difficulties in maintaining its relationship with India due to border killings, a sense of distrust, security concern, trade defficits, transit issues, and water sh...

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Same Principles but Different Outcomes of SAARC and ASEAN: Searching Gap

Journal of Public Administration and Governance, Feb 25, 2019

This article shows that two regional organizations-the Association of South East Asian Nations an... more This article shows that two regional organizations-the Association of South East Asian Nations and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation were established for regional cooperation and integration. Though both regional organizations" principles, objectives have similarity but unfortunately, SAARC became an ineffective organization by failing to achieve its goal. Intra-regional trade of SAARC is significantly worse than other regions in the globe. This article tries to find out the reason behind the ineffectiveness of SAARC and concludes that India-Pakistan rivalry, India"s role with smaller countries and mutual mistrust among the nations of South Asia are the main causes that made SAARC an ineffective organization. On the contrary, ASEAN nations have practiced informal diplomacy to mitigate their bilateral disputes, decision making process-the ASEAN way, Indonesia"s positive role made ASEAN a successful organization. The article has also shown a comparative analysis between SAARC and ASEAN for identifying some good examples which SAARC countries could follow.

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Urban Solid Waste Management: A Study on Comilla City

Improper management of solid waste is one of the main causes of environmental pollution and degra... more Improper management of solid waste is one of the main causes of environmental pollution and degradation in many cities. Low collection coverage, unavailable transport services, and lack of suitable treatment, recycling and disposal facilities are responsible for unsatisfactory waste management, leading to water, land and air pollution, and for putting people and the environment at risk. The process of establishing door-to-door waste collection system is not always transparent to the public. People usually receive services of primary collection service providers (Community Based Organization) and Comilla City Corporation (CCC) are not fully involved in the activities/decision making process. Comilla City Corporation does not have adequate capacity to handle the increasing solid waste mainly due to limited budgets. This paper aims to identify the status of waste management process, explore the problems of service delivery, and to justify the public satisfaction. It also provides some ...

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