Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
September 23, 2026
This article examines the formidable and multifaceted challenges to achieving a sustainable peace in Mali. It analyzes the complex and inter...
The abstract situates the Syrian conflict within a layered geopolitical contest that combines domestic fracture, regional rivalry and major-...
This article evaluates Afghanistan’s security landscape as ISAF operations wound down, weighing the coalition’s contributions to capacity bu...
This article examines Nepal’s political transition from armed insurgency to an electoral process, focusing on the constituent assembly, secu...
This article explores the endogenous basis of the popular uprising that erupted among Kashmiri Muslims in the Indian-administered Kashmir in...
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the Maoist "People's War" in Nepal, which by 2006 had engulfed much of the country and pos...
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the problems of governance that plagued Nepal following its transition to a multi-party de...
This article provides a nuanced analysis of the dynamics of civil-military relations in India, examining the factors of continuity and chang...
This article is a scholarly review of the book "Insurgent Crossfire: North-East India" by the journalist and scholar Subir Bhaumik. The revi...
Surveying the strategic landscape of South Asia in the early post–Cold War period, this article analyzes nuclear developments, conventional...
This article examines the international dimension of the Kashmir dispute, with a particular focus on the new phase of conflict that erupted...
This article explores Soviet–Afghan relations through two intertwined lenses: security imperatives that drove intervention and withdrawal, a...
This article provides a grim analysis of the state of Sri Lanka in 1989, a year in which the country was simultaneously engulfed by two brut...
This article evaluates how the cohesion and incentives of Mujahideen factions shaped peace prospects in Afghanistan in 1988. It disaggregate...
This analytical study examines the complex relationship between ethnic problems and political violence through the case study of the Punjab...
This comprehensive analysis examines South Africas strategy in Namibia during the mid-1980s and assesses the response of the international c...
